Fibrinogen Levels After Cardiac Surgical Procedures: Association With Postoperative Bleeding, Trigger Values, and Target Values

Fibrinogen Levels After Cardiac Surgical Procedures: Association With Postoperative Bleeding, Trigger Values, and Target Values [1]

These authors analyzed retrospectively the effect of postoperative fibrinogen level on bleeding after heart surgery in their database of 2,800 patients. They found that serum fibrinogen levels lower than 220 mg/dl more than doubled the risk of postoperative bleeding.

Is it time to standardize the measurement of postop fibrinogen in cardiac surgery?

Source name:

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Resource link:

http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(16)00006-0/abstract [3]

Taxonomy:

Cardiac Guidelines [4]

Subspecialty(ies):

Cardiac [5]

Author(s):

Marco Ranucci, MD, Valeria Pistuddi, Ekaterina Baryshnikova, PhD (Biol), Dionisio Colella, MD, Paolo Bianchi, MD

Taxonomy2018 vocabulary term reference:

Cardiac [6]

Professional Affairs [7]