Routine use of viscoelastic blood tests for diagnosis and treatment of coagulopathic bleeding in cardiac surgery: Updated systematic review and meta-analysis

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 823-833

  Serraino, G F ^a   Murphy, G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cardiac surgical procedures; haemorrhage; review; systematic

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG VENTILATION; META ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RISK; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REOPERATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; THROMBOELASTOMETRY; VISCOELASTIC BLOOD TEST; VISCOELASTICITY; ADULT; HEMOSTASIS; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM;

HEMOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY;

EID: 85026731041     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aex100     Document Type: Review

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