Anaesthesia Supplement on ‘Transfusion, Thrombosis and Management of Bleeding’
Anaesthesia, the journal of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland, announces the publication of a special open-access supplement on Transfusion, Thrombosis and Management... Read More
Thromboelastography in patients with severe sepsis: a prospective cohort study.
Haase N, Ostrowski SR, Wetterslev J, et al.
Intensive Care Med 2015;41:77-85.
Review by D. Faraoni
Excessive postoperative bleeding and outcomes in neonates undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass.
Guzzetta NA, Allen NN, Wilson EC, Foster GS, Ehrlich AC, Miller BE
Anesth Analg 2015;120:405-410.
Review by D. Faraoni
Risk of bleeding with dabigatran in atrial fibrillation.
Hernandez I, Baik SH, Piñera A, Zhang Y
JAMA Intern Med 2015;175:18-24.
Review by S. Kozek-Langenecker
Thromboelastometry-guided intraoperative haemostatic management reduces bleeding and red cell transfusion after paediatric cardiac surgery.
Nakayama Y, Nakajima Y, Tanaka KA, et al.
Br J Anaesth 2015;114:91-102.
Review by D. Faraoni
Thromboelastography is a suboptimal test for determination of the underlying cause of bleeding associated with cardiopulmonary bypass and may not predict a hypercoagulable state.
Welsh KJ, Padilla A, Dasgupta A, Nguyen AN, Wahed A
Am J Clin Pathol 2014;142:492-497.
Review by J. Stensballe
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