Practical management of anticoagulation, bleeding and blood product support for cardiac surgery part two: Transfusion issues

Anticoagulation and transfusion management in cardiac surgery

“…They have summarised the current state of knowledge regarding the aetiology of bleeding and the acquired aspects of anticoagulation disorders and transfusion medicine. 1,2 Predicting which patients are at increased risk of bleeding is notoriously difficult. Sophisticated testing such as platelet aggregometry has been shown to have some predictive value.…”