Asphyxia by drowning induces massive bleeding due to hyperfibrinolytic disseminated intravascular coagulation

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2394-2402

  Schwameis, Michael ^a   Schober, Andreas ^a   Schörgenhofer, Christian ^a   Sperr, Wolfgang Reinhard ^a   Schöchl, Herbert ^b   Janata Schwatczek, Karin ^a   Kürkciyan, Erol Istepan ^a   Sterz, Fritz ^a   Jilma, Bernd ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b AUVA Trauma Center Salzburg   (Austria)

Author keywords

Asphyxia disseminated intravascular coagulation; Bleeding; Cardiac arrest; Drowning

Indexed keywords

ANTIPLASMIN; D DIMER; FIBRINOGEN; HEPARIN LYASE; PLASMIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ACIDOSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DROWNING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL BED; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; IN VITRO STUDY; ISCHEMIA; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FIBRINOLYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HEMORRHAGE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; ASPHYXIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; DROWNING; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84944449572     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001273     Document Type: Article

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