The most common methods for monitoring UFH are the activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) and antifactor Xa heparin assay (anti-Xa HA), but both present challenges, and the optimal method to ...

Discover the high risks dialysis patients face during emergency abdominal surgeries, including severe bleeding and ...

Sixty-two of the 102 procedures were performed on patients ... only if there were no abnormalities of the prothrombin time, the partial thromboplastin time and the blood platelets (Wright's ...

The odds of major perioperative bleeding were increased 18.1-fold for patients who underwent emergent hepatic surgery, 10.9-fold for emergent splenic surgery, and 9.6-fold for emergent pancreatic ...