Tag: coagulopathy
Sepsis Patients with Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by dysregulation of the body's response to infection, and is one of the leading causes of death in intensive care units. In sepsis, the systemic inflammatory reaction... read more
Sepsis-induced coagulopathy: a matter of timeline
Leone et al. have nicely outlined the most frequent questions about thrombocytopenia in sepsis. Besides thrombocytopenia, sepsis indeed induces numerous pathophysiological changes. Among these, the acute-phase response... read more
Long COVID Associated with Reduced Circulating Serotonin Levels
Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC, "Long COVID") pose a significant global health challenge. The pathophysiology is unknown, and no effective treatments have been found to date. Several hypotheses have been formulated... read more
Anticoagulation in the ICU: Contact Pathway Inhibition Future
Bleeding and thrombotic complications are the main cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients on the intensive care unit (ICU), receiving short-term percutaneous mechanical circulatory support (pMCS) by extracorporeal... read more
No Benefits For Using 4-Factor Prothrombin Complex Concentrate (4F-PCC) in Trauma Patients
Early administration of 4-factor prothrombin complex concentrate (4F-PCC) was of no benefit to patients with trauma at risk of massive transfusion, the randomized PROCOAG trial from France showed. Among over 300 patients... read more
Acid-Base Disorders in the Critically III Patient
Acid-base disorders are common in the intensive care unit. By utilizing a systematic approach to their diagnosis, it is easy to identify both simple and mixed disturbances. These disorders are divided into four major categories:... read more
Trauma-induced Coagulopathy
Trauma is a major cause of mortality worldwide, and bleeding is the leading preventable cause of death. About one-quarter of patients with severe trauma develop a clotting disorder termed trauma-induced coagulopathy (TIC)... read more
tPA for Critically Ill ICU Patients with COVID-19: Does Alteplase Help?
How do you define a last-ditch effort to save someone's life from COVID-19? Perhaps giving tPA to a severe COVID patient? At this point, I am certain many of us have attempted, with informed consent of course, therapies for... read more
Relationship between admission coagulopathy and prognosis in children with TBI
We concluded that admission APTT > 39.2 s and fibrinogen ≤ 120 mg/dL were independently associated with mortality in children with moderate to severe TBI. Early identification and intervention of abnormal APTT and... read more
Early Hemostatic Management of Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy
Inflammation and coagulation pathobiology play a significant role in the development of multiorgan failure occurring with sepsis. Inflammation induced by an infection can lead to endothelial injury, which subsequently... read more
Oral Vitamin K Lowers the International Normalized Ratio More Rapidly
Oral vitamin K lowers INR more rapidly than subcutaneous vitamin K in asymptomatic patients who have supratherapeutic INR values while receiving warfarin. Warfarin therapy was withheld, and 1 mg of vitamin K was given... read more
Gastrointestinal Complications in Critically Ill Patients With and Without COVID-19
This study found a higher rate of gastrointestinal complications, including mesenteric ischemia, in critically ill patients with COVID-19 compared with propensity score–matched patients without COVID-19, suggesting a distinct... read more
Consequences of Cardiopulmonary Bypass: What the Intensivist Needs to Know
Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is common for most cardiac surgeries. CPB drains blood from the heart and returns it to the proximal systemic circulation allowing perfusion during the operative period. It was pioneered in 1951... read more
Coagulopathy of COVID-19
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2/coronavirus disease 2019 frequently induces hypercoagulability with both microangiopathy and local thrombus formation, and a systemic coagulation defect that leads to large... read more
Pulmonary Embolism in COVID-19 Patients in France
Pulmonary embolism (PE) in the context of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) appears to be driven largely by inflammation and coagulopathy rather than by traditional risk factors for thromboembolism. Study results suggest... read more
Micropuncture Kits for Difficult Vascular Access
The ability to obtain rapid vascular access, both arterial and venous, is a critical skill in emergency medicine, made even more important by recent advances in resuscitation technology. Patients may require placement... read more
The Misunderstood Coagulopathy of Liver Disease
In patients with abnormal coagulation testing results in the setting of liver disease, INR and PT may be best used to provide the practitioner with information about the synthetic function of the liver but not to assess hemorrhagic... read more
Unsupervised Analysis of Transcriptomics in Bacterial Sepsis Across Multiple Datasets Reveals Three Robust Clusters
The three sepsis subtypes may represent a unifying framework for understanding the molecular heterogeneity of the sepsis syndrome. Further study could potentially enable a precision medicine approach of matching novel immunomodulatory... read more
Tranexamic Acid For Isolated Penetrating Head Trauma
An aeromedical crew was dispatched to a local emergency department to transport a fourteen year-old female with self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head to a tertiary pediatric trauma hospital. The patient was previously... read more
Ultrasound-guided Pleural Effusion Drainage With a Small Catheter Using the Single-step Trocar or Modified Seldinger Technique
Ultrasound-guided pleural effusion drainage by catheter insertion is a safe and effective procedure. The success rate is low when the effusion is loculated and septated. Both the trocar and the modified Seldinger techniques... read more
Severity of Sepsis-Associated Coagulopathy Predicts Hospital Mortality
atients with sepsis-associated coagulopathy appear to be at heightened risk of death, according to results of a large retrospective cohort study. The risk of death in the study increased with the severity of the sepsis-associated... read more
