Open AccessStored Platelet Functionality Is Not Decreased After Warming with a Fluid Warmer
Author(s) -
Gerhardt König,
Mark H. Yazer,
Jonathan H. Waters
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0b013e31829cfdfa
Subject(s) - thromboelastography , medicine , platelet , whole blood , anesthesia
Warming of IV-administered fluids and blood products is routinely performed in the operating room to help maintain normothermia. Current guidelines recommend against the warming of platelets (PLTs), although there is no evidence for this prohibition in the literature. Our goal in this pilot study was to determine whether the warming of stored PLTs had any effect on their function.