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#128 Cirrhosis Bleeding Risk, FFP and Indwelling Pleural Catheters: Gray Matters Segments

Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast

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The Benefits of FFP for Cirrhosis Patients

For the vast majority of people, there's no difference whatsoever on coagulation function. There are some people about one in a hundred where you're actually going to increase their thrombin generation. So we don't always know the balance of the pro and anticoagulant factors. And giving FFP is a blunt tool that will not necessarily reduce the bleeding risk for cirrhosis patients.

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