A practical technique for clinicians to approximate platelet function after fifteen-minutes using thromboelastography

2020-03-13 anesthesia Title + abstract only

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BackgroundPoint-of-care platelet function tests are used by anaesthetists and surgeons to create risk management plans for patients who have recently taken antiplatelet medication. Thromboelastography (TEG), one method of determining platelet function, sometimes takes >60 minutes to produce results. Previous studies have shown a novel parameter, area under the curve at 15 minutes (AUC15), correlates with clinical outcomes but used privately-owned, custom-made software to calculate AUC15. This st...