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SUBMITTER: Moore HB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7340109 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Anesthesia and analgesia 20190901 3
Despite over a half-century of recognizing fibrinolytic abnormalities after trauma, we remain in our infancy in understanding the underlying mechanisms causing these changes, resulting in ineffective treatment strategies. With the increased utilization of viscoelastic hemostatic assays (VHAs) to measure fibrinolysis in trauma, more questions than answers are emerging. Although it seems certain that low fibrinolytic activity measured by VHA is common after injury and associated with increased mor ...[more]