# 398:Live! From SHM: Inpatient Cirrhosis Management
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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The Importance of Routine Administration of Blood Products
The INR reflects liver synthesis dysfunction. It can be a marker of a bleeding state, but it also doesn't capture the fact the person has high risk of clotting. So treating just a number isn't helpful. There are guidelines actually support no routine administration of FFP or platelets before a diagnostic parasynthesis.
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