Cardiology

Hemostatometry useful for tracking hemostasis during surgery

Published in Blood Weekly, June 20th, 2002

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Hemostatometers can give heart surgeons early warning of developing coagulopathic states in their patients, researchers in the United States find.

"A hemostatic monitor capable of rapid, accurate detection of clinical coagulopathy within the operating room could improve management of bleeding after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB)," explained Dr. Nauder Faraday and colleagues working at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

The Clot Signature Analyzer (Xylum Corporation, Scarsdale, NY) is suitable for this purpose, Faraday and coauthors said.

The researchers evaluated the Clot...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2002-06-20)

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