Abstract
A 58-year-old man is brought into the trauma center with a crush injury of his bilateral lower extremities after a steel beam fell on him at a construction site. After responding to the page reporting the level-1 trauma, you evaluate whether the patient will need to go to the operating room (OR) emergently. Arriving at the trauma unit, you get a report from the emergency medical services (EMS) stating that this man has a history of coronary artery disease (CAD) with a drug-eluting stent (DES) placed 8 months ago and that he is on both aspirin and clopidogrel. The patient is obese, with a Mallampati IV airway, and has obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). This chapter will review point of care coagulation testing and its role in regional and neuraxial anesthesia.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | You're Wrong, I'm Right |
| Subtitle of host publication | Dueling Authors Reexamine Classic Teachings in Anesthesia |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
| Pages | 337-338 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319431697 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783319431673 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Anticoagulation
- Neuraxial anesthesia
- Point-of-care (POC) coagulation testing
- Regional anesthesiology
- Trauma anesthesiology