
Episode 86: Thromboelastography with Bob Sikorski
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
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Is the MA Longitudinal?
There are many different recipes out there what works best for your institution. A lot of places have their protocols published so you can actually search for those if you like to establish it in your own institution. So we're really right through anti-thrombin 3 where we're inhibiting really the thrombin activation of the platelets basically and then one more step is added reptilase reptilase is a thrombin surrogate that's not affected by anti-thrubin 3. By adding replays in factor 13 we get a fiber and fiber engine MA. The difference between the fiber engine MA and the platelet MA is actually your fiber engine component to that clot.
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