Why the study?
What are the preoperative predictors of heparin resistance in patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass grafting?
Population
200 consecutive patients scheduled for elective coronary artery bypass operations
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
Intraoperative
Authors
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May aid preoperative heparin resistance risk stratification in CABG; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
What are the preoperative predictors of heparin resistance in patients undergoing elective coronary artery bypass grafting?
A predictive model using five preoperative clinical and laboratory factors can accurately identify patients at high risk for heparin resistance during CABG.
Ranucci et al. (1999) studied this question.
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