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01-03-2010 | Poster presentation
Fibrinogen in dilutional coagulopathy: a dose study in pigs
Authors:
J Martini, S Maisch, W Martini, W Streif, D Fries
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2010
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Excerpt
Dilutional coagulopathy following massive bleeding is the result of clotting factor dilution and impaired fibrin polymerization after infusion of colloidal plasma expanders. Although fibrinogen has been clinically used to treat dilutional coagulopathy [
1,
2], the effects of fibrinogen dosages on normalizing coagulation function is unclear. This study investigated the effect of six different fibrinogen dosages (range: 37.5 to 600 mg/kg) on ROTEM
® parameters and overall blood loss in a pig model for dilutional coagulopathy. …