A preliminary study using rotational thromboelastometry to investigate perioperative coagulation changes and to identify hypercoagulability in obese patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement

Usha Gurunathan,Lisa May Lin Stanton,Rachael M Weir,Karen E Hay,Bronwyn L Pearse

A preliminary study using rotational thromboelastometry to investigate perioperative coagulation changes and to identify hypercoagulability in obese patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement

2019

Usha Gurunathan
Lisa May Lin Stanton
Rachael M Weir
Karen E Hay
Bronwyn L Pearse

Surgery and obesity are known risk factors for thromboembolic events due to the presence of a hypercoagulable state. Rotational thromboelastometry is a viscoelastic assay that can provide a measure...

Keywords:

Anesthesia
Thromboelastometry
Knee replacement
Surgery
Perioperative
Medicine
Body mass index
Orthopedic surgery
Arthroplasty
Confidence interval
Prospective cohort study

Correction
Source
Cite
Save
Machine Reading By IdeaReader

References

Citations