Bérénice Tiquet, Franck Pihan, Philippe Thomasset, Michel Denizou, Marius Tifrea, Andreaa Tifrea, Isabelle Orsel, Jean Philippe Marsaud, Jérome Jouan, David Vandroux
OBJECTIVES: In our center, an unusual rate of patients had abnormalities of hemostasis in immediate postoperative period of cardiac surgery. Our objectives were to identify the cause of these sudden hemostasis abnormalities and to evaluate the performances of point of care coagulation testing. METHODS: In this prospective and descriptive study, we included 33 consecutive patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery for 1 month. Heparin-induced anticoagulation and calculation of the protamine dose were tested by the Hemostasis Management System Plus device (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN, USA)...
February 22, 2023: Perfusion