Transfusion Medicine

Visual cues don't indicate blood thinner use

Published in Blood Weekly, August 29th, 2002

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Contrary to conventional wisdom, blood thinner use cannot be accurately judged by sight during surgery, researchers say.

"Many surgeons believe they can discern whether a patient is taking an anticoagulant or a platelet inhibitor (blood thinner) by visual inspection of intraoperative oozing," explained Stewart W. West and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

However, West and coauthors found evidence contradicting this long-held belief.

A group surgeons, blinded to whether or not patients took blood thinners, attempted to detect blood thinner use in 110 patients...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2002-08-29)

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