The Year in Coagulation: Selected Highlights from 2019

Authors: Mazzeffi, M. A., Patel, P. A., Bolliger, D., Erdoes, G., and Tanaka, K.

Publication: J.Cardiothorac.Vasc.Anesth.;

Affiliations: Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD ; Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA ; Prehospital Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Basel, Department of Anaesthesia, Basel, Switzerland ; Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Abstract: This is the first annual highlights in coagulation article to be published in the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. Its purpose is to review the most important coagulation literature from 2019. In the review, the authors discuss the recent Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists clinical practice advisory on the management of perioperative bleeding and hemostasis, heparin monitoring, protamine dosing, antiplatelet therapy, factor concentrate therapy, and coagulopathy during mechanical circulatory support.