Thromboelastography: useful and underutilized

Neonatal and infantile spinal sonography: A useful investigation often underutilized

Sonography is an ideal, effective, noninvasive tool for evaluation of the spinal cord in neonatal and early infantile age groups owing to lack of ossification of the posterior elements of spine. Understanding normal anatomical appearances is a prerequisite for the interpretation of various pathologies of the spinal canal and its contents. This review elucidates normal appearances of the spinal ...

Thromboelastography: past, present, and future.

THIS issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY contains an article by Camenzind et al. regarding the influence of citrate storage on thromboelastography (TEG Haemascope Corp.). Although the TEG is most commonly performed on a native (uncitrated) sample, the use of citrated blood permits longer delays after sample acquisition, thus facilitating ancillary or research laboratory analysis. Camenzind et al. nicely ou...

Thromboelastography (‘TEG’) and rotational thromboelasto-

metry (‘ROTEM’) are used increasingly in cardiac and liver surgery to evaluate clotting factor deficiencies and platelet dysfunction. 7 Both monitor viscoelastic properties of whole blood as it is induced to clot in a low-shear environment (resembling sluggish venous flow) and provide valuable information on haemostasis from initiation to fibrinolysis. Our case illustrates the limitations that ...

Thromboelastography in veterinary medicine.

Thromboelastography (TEG) has been used in experimental animal studies since the early 1960s and in a routine clinical setting for the past decade. From the data currently available, it is clear that both the scope and limitations of TEG in animals resemble those observed in humans. TEG has been used to diagnose hypercoagulability in animals with disseminated intravascular coagulation, various ...

Thromboelastometry vs. thromboelastography