Department of Critical Care Medicine, Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Unit 112, Houston, TX 77030, USA. jlnates@mdanderson.org
Abstract:
Introduction
Recent reports using thrombelastography have suggested that neurosurgical patients develop a hypercoagulable state in the postoperative period. Since venous thromboembolism is a potentially life threatening complication in these patients, we studied a similar population in our institution.