
Episode 86: Thromboelastography with Bob Sikorski
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
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Is There a Caveat to the R-Time?
From the from the beginning to 20 millimeters. So it's basically the 20 millimeters of clot thickness when it occurs. If it's prolonged you have a decrease if it's shortened you have more robust fiber kinetics. Now there's a caveat there as well you have to look at that shape of the tracing and the actual values because of someone bumps the table while this this tag is starting to run in the R-timeIt'll actually cause a split point. The tag doesn't know the difference between somebody bumping and someone not. It'll measure the split point from there and miscalculate your alpha angle.
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