Med Report: Ceasing blood flow with absorbable hemostatic agents
Linda Heltemes CRNA, MS

$3.95 		OR Nurse 2013
May 2008 
Volume 2  Number 5
Pages 19 - 20
 
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ABSTRACT

Heltemes, Linda CRNA, MS

Issue: Volume 2(5), May 2008, p 19–20 Publication Type: [Department: Med Report] Publisher: © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc. Institution(s): Linda Heltemes is a staff anesthetist at Buckeye Anesthesia Associates, Lima, Ohio.

In the OR, even healthy patients with normal clotting mechanisms are at risk for injury, due to surgery's effects on the body's natural coagulation system. 1 Regardless of whether injury is due to vascular damage, surgical trauma, or a combination of factors, the body's hemostatic system will strive to minimize blood loss following an injury. 1 When inherent clotting mechanisms fail or are compromised, prompt intervention is required.

In trauma patients, acute hemorrhage is typically due to vascular injury, in combination with some sort of dysfunction of natural clotting mechanisms ...

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