Difficulty of establishing preoperative coagulation status
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Difficulty of establishing preoperative coagulation status.
Editor—We read with interest the editorial proposing that the routine measurement of a patient’s coagulation status should be abandoned in the absence of a family or personal history, an acute illness, or anticoagulation therapy. The authors are correct that questioning the patient about clotting abnormalities and bleeding disorders should form an essential part of the pre-anaesthetic medical a...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aer050