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Acute resuscitation with polyethylene glycol-20k: A thromboelastographic analysis

Niluka Wickramaratne1, Kristine Kenning, Heather Reichstetter

  • 1From the Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (N.W., K.K., H.R., C.B., R.L., M.A., M.J.M.); Department of Physiology and Biophysics (M.J.M.); and Department of Emergency Medicine (M.J.M.), School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
|April 30, 2019
PubMed
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Polyethylene glycol-20,000 Da (PEG-20k) resuscitation improved survival in hemorrhagic shock pigs by increasing plasma volume. However, PEG-20k temporarily reduced platelet function, a likely consequence of its volume-expanding effects.

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