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Episode 86: Thromboelastography with Bob Sikorski

Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast

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A Tag Tracing Looks Like a Wine Glass on Its Side

A tag tracing looks kind of like a wine glass on its side. It's got a, it's got the stem which is a flat line and then it starts to separate as Bob said and goes up until you're you've got an amplitude that is like the width of the open wine glass. And so from that beginning to right after, so you said two millimeters after the split happens, so right after you leave the stem of the wine glass that's gonna be your R-time. Right? Factor function or you could even prolong the R-time basically with hemodilution. That's where it occurs. Now on tag we can also get the thrombin velocity curve

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