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Demystifying ROTEM and TEG

Anaesthesia Coffee Break

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Do You Know if You Need FFP or Prothrombonex?

When we think about starting coagulation, this is called the initiation phase. And so that if you have a prolonged K-time or CT time, what you need to do is you need to treat that with coagulation factors. With trauma patients, it's very dependent because I've seen both happen in both kind of scenarios. Stan, when we do the obstetric rotum, we always find that the typical patterns, your clotting time or K-time is rarely low. But it's almost always for britingin, lackin, and that's pollution. It's just asking Ben, what do you reckon that's required to speed up coagulation?

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