Influence of temperature on thromboelastometry and platelet aggregation in cardiac arrest patients undergoing targeted temperature management

Autor: Anne-Mette Hvas, Anni Nørgaard Jeppesen, Hans Kirkegaard, Susanne Ilkjær
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Jeppesen, A N, Kirkegaard, H, Ilkjær, S & Hvas, A M 2016, ' Influence of temperature on thromboelastometry and platelet aggregation in cardiac arrest patients undergoing targeted temperature management ', Critical Care (Online Edition), vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 118 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-016-1302-9
Critical Care
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-016-1302-9
Popis: BACKGROUND: Coagulation can be visualised using whole blood coagulation analyses such as thromboelastometry and platelet aggregation tests; however, the role of temperature in the analyses is ambiguous. The aim was to examine whether temperature influences the whole blood coagulation tests.METHODS: We included 40 patients treated with targeted temperature management (33 ± 1 °C) after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The blood samples were obtained on hypothermia and normothermia. Each blood sample was analysed simultaneously at 33 °C and 37 °C by thromboelastography (ROTEM®) employing the assays EXTEM®, INTEM®, FIBTEM® and HEPTEM®, and by Multiplate®Analyzer, using COLtest®, ADPtest®, ASPItest® and TRAPtest® as agonists. Data on antithrombotic drugs were collected systematically from medical records, and data were analysed using repeated measurement analysis of variance (ANOVA).RESULTS: The ROTEM® analyses showed increased clotting time, lower maximum velocity and increased time to maximum velocity (all p values 0.09) analysed at 33 °C and 37 °C, independent of the body temperature. In the hypothermic blood sample, no difference was found when using the COLtest®, ASPItest® or TRAPtest® to compare platelet aggregation analysed at 33 °C and 37 °C (all p values >0.19), but platelet aggregation was significantly higher using the ADPtest® (p CONCLUSION: ROTEM® analyses seemed not to be dependent on body temperature but showed a slower initiation of coagulation when analysed at 33 °C compared with 37 °C. The Multiplate®Analyzer results were dependent on the temperature used in the analyses and the body temperature. In whole blood coagulation tests, the temperature used in the analyses should be kept at 37 °C irrespective of the patient's body temperature being 33 °C or 37 °C.
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