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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2003, Vol. 90, No. 6 809-810
© 2003 The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia

Correspondence

The effect of haemodilution on coagulation

T. G. Ruttmann1, P. Innerhofer2, D. Fries2, A. Klingler2 and W. Streif2

1 Stanford, CA, USA 2 Innsbruck, Austria

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Editor—The letter by Innerhofer and colleagues1 has reference. While, in reply, Drs Ng and colleagues2 have addressed most of the issues, I believe that it is important to emphasize some of the matters arising from their correspondence.

The most important point is that, when looking at the effect that haemodilution has on coagulation, the undiluted blood is the control for the coagulation seen in the sample after dilution. As a result, it does not matter what the reading was to start with, as one is looking at the ‘change . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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