Con: Factor Concentrate Usage in Cardiac Surgery-A Paucity of Data Limits Their Universal Adoption

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Electronic address: spaicole@stanford.edu.

Comment

Lindsay Raleigh et al. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2018 Apr.

. 2018 Apr;32(2):1068-1071.

doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2017.05.005. Epub 2017 May 3.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Electronic address: spaicole@stanford.edu.

No abstract available

Keywords: coagulopathy; factor concentrates; fresh frozen plasma; prothrombin complex concentrate; rFVIIa.

Comment on

PRO: Prothrombin Complex Concentrate Should Be Used in Preference to Fresh Frozen Plasma for Hemostasis in Cardiac Surgical Patients.
Bhatt HV, Subramaniam K. Bhatt HV, et al. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2018 Apr;32(2):1062-1067. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2017.05.044. Epub 2017 May 30. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2018. PMID: 29336960 No abstract available.