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SUBMITTER: Winer LK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7570228 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Winer Leah K LK Salyer Christen C Beckmann Nadine N Caldwell Charles C CC Nomellini Vanessa V
Trauma surgery & acute care open 20201016 1
There are sparse clinical data addressing the persistence of disordered coagulation in sepsis and its role in chronic critical illness. Coagulopathy in the absence of anticoagulant therapy and/or liver disease can be highly variable in sepsis, but it tends to be prolonged in patients in the intensive care unit with a length of stay greater than 14 days. These coagulation abnormalities tend to precede multisystem organ failure and persistence of these coagulation derangements can predict 28-day m ...[more]