TEG and Rotem in the Emergency Medicine Cases Course

Dr. Himmel: I do see patients coming in with VTE, not serotics per se, but typically females who are given big doses of TXA for dysfunctional uterine bleeding. The TEG has a little handheld card on which you place some blood. And what it does is it follows your fibrin clot. You get playlists to hearing and you get fibrin formed and then the fibrin breaks down - that's fibrinolosis. It convex electricity at different rates and it can take that by this card.