Viscoelastic Coagulation Testing: Use and Current Limitations in Perioperative Decision-making

Coagulation monitoring: current techniques and clinical use of viscoelastic point-of-care coagulation devices.

Perioperative monitoring of blood coagulation is critical to better understand causes of hemorrhage, to guide hemostatic therapies, and to predict the risk of bleeding during the consecutive anesthetic or surgical procedures. Point-of-care (POC) coagulation monitoring devices assessing the viscoelastic properties of whole blood, i.e., thrombelastography, rotation thrombelastometry, and Sonoclot...

The Limitations of Current Decision-Making Techniques in the Procurement of COTS Software Components

The fundamentals of good decision-making are, first, a clear understanding of the decision itself and second the availability of properly focused information to support the decision. Decision-making techniques help with both these problems. However, the techniques should be thought of as aids to decision-making and not the substitutes for it. Numerous decision-making techniques have been propos...

Information Theory and Observational Limitations in Decision Making

We introduce a general framework for formalizing and analyzing the problem faced by a Decision Maker (DM) working under information-theoretic constraints on their observational ability. The random utility model and the “hedonic utility” model of Netzer and Robson (NR) are special cases of this framework. We begin by applying information theory to our framework to derive general results concerni...

Toxicity Testing and the Toxicity Testing and the Current Situation in IRAN

Toxicity Testing and the Toxicity Testing and the Current Situation in IRAN