Con: The Hepcon HMS Should Not Be Used Instead of Traditional Activated Clotting Time to Dose Heparin and Protamine for Cardiac Surgery Requiring Cardiopulmonary Bypass

George Gilly; Jay Trusheim

doi:10.1053/j.jvca.2016.08.029

Con: The Hepcon HMS Should Not Be Used Instead of Traditional Activated Clotting Time to Dose Heparin and Protamine for Cardiac Surgery Requiring Cardiopulmonary Bypass

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2016 Dec;30(6):1730-1732. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2016.08.029. Epub 2016 Aug 26.

Authors

George Gilly¹, Jay Trusheim²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA. Electronic address: ggilly@ochsner.org.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA.

PMID: 27751763
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2016.08.029

No abstract available

Keywords: Hepcon; activated clotting time; anticoagulation; antithrombin III; cardiopulmonary bypass; heparin; heparin dose-response curve; tissue factor pathway inhibitor.

MeSH terms

Anticoagulants
Blood Coagulation Tests
Cardiopulmonary Bypass*
Heparin*
Humans
Plant Preparations
Protamines
Whole Blood Coagulation Time

Substances

Anticoagulants
Hepcon
Plant Preparations
Protamines
Heparin