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Tracheostomy in intensive care unit patients can be performed without bleeding complications in case of normal thromboelastometry results (EXTEM CT) despite increased PT-INR: a prospective pilot study

BACKGROUND: Coagulopathy is often accompanied by prolongation of prothrombin time (PT) in septic and nonseptic patients in intensive care unit (ICU). The conventional way to correct the coagulopathy is to administer fresh frozen plasma (FFP) before invasive procedures to minimise the risk of bleedin...

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Autores principales: Durila, Miroslav, Lukáš, Pavel, Astraverkhava, Marta, Beroušek, Jan, Zábrodský, Michal, Vymazal, Tomáš
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4460867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26060042
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-015-0073-1