Predictors of bleeding in ecmo patients undergoing surgery.

CONCLUSIONS: In patients requiring surgery during vvECMO therapy with perioperative transfusion of two or more PRBCs preoperative fibrinogen levels were significantly reduced compared to patients with transfusion of less than two PRBCs. No other analyzed lab value showed any predictive qualities in terms of bleeding. PMID: 31630509 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Minerva Anestesiologica - Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Minerva Anestesiol Source Type: research