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Breast Surgery

Monday 25 March 2013

Point-of-care coagulation management in intensive care medicine

Point-of-care coagulation management in intensive care medicine. Critical care, March 2013, 17:218.

Meybohm, P., et al.

http://ccforum.com/content/pdf/cc12527.pdf

Coagulopathy in critically ill patients is common and of multifactorial origin. Coagulopathy-associated risk of bleeding and the use of allogeneic blood products are independent risk factors for morbidity and mortality. Therefore, prompt and correct identification of the underlying causes of these coagulation abnormalities is required, since each coagulation abnormality necessitates very different therapeutic management strategies.

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