Tag: coagulopathy

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

Haemostatic Resuscitation in Trauma: The Next Generation

The next generation of haemostatic resuscitation aims at applying a ratio 1:1:1 driven strategy while using antifibrinolytics, haemostatic monitoring and avoiding critical fibrinogen deficiency by substitution. Mortality... read more

Implementing Treatment Algorithms for the Correction of Trauma Induced Coagulopathy

The 5-year TACTIC project is a multi-component study, a main focus of which is the development of European-wide clinical trial, entitled "Implementing Treatment Algorithms for the Correction of Trauma Induced Coagulopathy... read more

Early Hemorrhage Control and Management of Trauma-induced Coagulopathy

Trauma resuscitation should focus on early goal-directed therapy with use of viscoelastic hemostatic assays while initially applying a ratio 1:1:1 driven transfusion therapy (with red blood cells, plasma and platelets) in... read more

Optimal Approach to Mechanical Ventilation After Cardiac Arrest

Return of spontaneous circulation after cardiac arrest results in a systemic inflammatory state called the post-cardiac arrest syndrome (PCAS), characterised by oxidative stress, coagulopathy, neuronal injury, and organ dysfunction.... read more