Marco Tescione, Eugenio Vadalà, Graziella Marano, Enzo Battaglia, Andrea Bruni, Eugenio Garofalo, Federico Longhini, Serena Rovida, Nicola Polimeni, Rosalba Squillaci, Stefano Lascala, Gaetana Franco, Demetrio Labate, Massimo Caracciolo, Sebastiano Macheda
Surgery for hip fractures should be performed within 48 h from patient's admission. However, several factors including chronic antiplatelet therapy could delay operation. Among the totality of patients taking clopidogrel, up to 30% are resistant to the drug and have a normal platelets reactivity. We propose thromboelastography (TEG) with an ADP Platelet Mapping assay kit to assess platelet aggregation, a safe tool that could help to avoid surgery delay in those patients treated with antiplatelet therapy. A patient's blood sample was collected for aggregometry...
May 6, 2021: Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing