We read with immense interest your article about thromboelastography and its correlation with conventional coagulation assays. Indeed the article was very useful. We are also doing a similar kind of study in patients with sepsis and we are trying to analyze the hemostatic dysfunction in sepsis by virtue of thromboelastography in non-bleeding and non-transfused patients in a North indian ICU setup. I would like to add to the limitations of this study. Besides being an observational study, serial evaluation of TEG was not done which would have been even better to study the correlation of TEG with conventional coagulation parameters. Moreover, a study can be plnned from your side in bleeding patients wherein blood component therapy can be compared with TEG and with conventional assays.
Thanks a lot
Syed Nabeel Muzaffar, Afzal Azim
Department of critical care medicine,SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India
limitations of thromboelastography
13 July 2015
Dear sir
We read with immense interest your article about thromboelastography and its correlation with conventional coagulation assays. Indeed the article was very useful. We are also doing a similar kind of study in patients with sepsis and we are trying to analyze the hemostatic dysfunction in sepsis by virtue of thromboelastography in non-bleeding and non-transfused patients in a North indian ICU setup. I would like to add to the limitations of this study. Besides being an observational study, serial evaluation of TEG was not done which would have been even better to study the correlation of TEG with conventional coagulation parameters. Moreover, a study can be plnned from your side in bleeding patients wherein blood component therapy can be compared with TEG and with conventional assays.
Thanks a lot
Syed Nabeel Muzaffar, Afzal Azim
Department of critical care medicine,SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India
Competing interests
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