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Rotational thrombelastometry: a step forward to safer patient care?

Overview of attention for article published in Critical Care, December 2014
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Title
Rotational thrombelastometry: a step forward to safer patient care?
Published in
Critical Care, December 2014
DOI 10.1186/s13054-014-0706-7
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Fuat H Saner

Abstract

The study by Hincker and colleagues indicated that the perioperative use of rotational thrombelastometry (ROTEM™) could predict thromboembolic events in 90% of the cases in non-cardiac surgery. Viscoelastic tests (VETs) - ROTEM™ and thrombelastography (TEG™) - are used mainly to predict bleeding complications. Most conventional coagulation tests, like prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time, can identify a disturbance in plasmatic hemostasis. However, the relevance of these assays is limited to the initiation phase of coagulation, whereas VETs are designed to assess the whole clotting kinetics and strength of the whole blood clot and reflect more the interaction between procoagulants, anticoagulants, and platelets. The first reports about VET and hypercoagulable state were published more than 25 years ago. Since then, several studies with different quality and sample size have been published, sometimes with conflicting results. A systematic review about hypercoagulable state and TEG™ indicated that further studies are needed to recommend VETs as a screening tool to predict postoperative thrombosis.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 1 3%
Unknown 38 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 15%
Student > Master 6 15%
Other 5 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 8%
Professor 3 8%
Other 9 23%
Unknown 7 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 22 56%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 2 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 5%
Social Sciences 2 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 10 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 December 2014.
All research outputs
#8,535,684
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Critical Care
#4,397
of 6,554 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#110,342
of 360,103 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Critical Care
#78
of 117 outputs
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