The risk of bleeding with tunneled dialysis catheter placement.
CONCLUSIONS: Based upon these data, it seems reasonable to classify the TDC placement procedure as having a very low risk of bleeding and to not require preprocedure laboratory testing. The value of suspending antithrombotic medications prior to TDC placement cannot be supported.
PMID: 27470252 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Journal of Vascular Access - Category: Surgery Tags: J Vasc Access Source Type: research
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