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Kathleen A Morrisroe1, Eric K Stanley2, Matthew P Borloz2
1Virginia Tech Carilion Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Roanoke, VA, USA.
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Patients with traumatic and medical emergencies that require the transfusion of blood products are frequent visitors to the Emergency Department. Emergency clinicians must have a robust understanding of the options available to replace various blood components. The ever-increasing number of patients on antithrombotic agents demands facility with approaches to reversing their effects. These topics merge in the care of the patient taking an antithrombotic agent who experiences a hemorrhagic emergency requiring urgent hemostasis and transfusion of components to replace those lost.
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