EDITORIALMonitoring transfusion requirements in major obstetric haemorrhage: out with the old and in with the new?
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Monitoring haemoglobin
Perhaps the most widely used point-of-care device for monitoring Hb is the HemoCue® (HemoCue® Ltd, Sheffield, UK). In parturients, Hb measurements from venous blood or from capillary blood using skin prick sampling have been shown to be accurate and equally so when sampled from the toe or the thumb.4 This is true providing the sampling is performed according to the recommendations of the manufacturer. The disadvantage of the HemoCue®, however, is that it is an intermittent and invasive monitor
Monitoring coagulation
Conventional laboratory tests of coagulation in the context of perioperative bleeding have limited value because of delays from blood sampling to obtaining results and coagulation tests use plasma rather than whole blood. However, monitoring coagulation during MOH is important for several reasons.
Firstly it is helpful to know the aetiology of coagulopathy. In any type of massive haemorrhage coagulopathy develops because of an imbalance between procoagulant, anticoagulant, profibrinolytic and
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