Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast cover image

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

Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast

CHAPTER

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.

00:00
Transcript
Play full episode

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts

Save insights instantly, chat with episodes, and build lasting knowledge - all powered by AI.
App store bannerPlay store banner