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Published on: October 13, 2008

The bleeding patient

S J Machin

    British Journal of Hospital Medicine
    |August 1, 1980
    PubMed

    The author has commented on the more frequently encountered acquired haemostatic defects and briefly outlined the relevant routine laboratory investigations that should be performed and their clinical significance. It is important that any replacement therapy with plasma, coagulation factor preparations and concentrates, and platelet infusions should be given promptly and their effectiveness assessed at regular intervals (Urbaniak and Cash, 1977). One's approach to the bleeding patient should be a combination of clinical assessment and interpretation of laboratory data, thus allowing an effective flexible policy to be followed.

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