Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology Wake Forest University School of Medicine Winston Salem, North Carolina
Disclosure(s):
Ryan Maves, MD, FCCM: AiCuris: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); GeoVax: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Shionogi: Advisory Board (Ongoing); Sound Pharmaceuticals: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Trauma Insights, LLC: Consultant (Terminated, July 20, 2023)
Regulated homeostatic hemostasis requires a fragile balance of procoagulants and anticoagulants, mostly maintained by negative feedback inhibition. When dysregulation results, whether due to illness, trauma or therapy, bleeding can result, with potentially dire consequences. Blood shortages remain an ongoing crisis in the United States, and both prevention and treatment strategies are of the utmost importance. Presenters will discuss different cases to encourage group discussion while working through optimal treatment strategies.
Learning Objectives:
Recognize normal hemostasis and abnormalities in coagulation
Review the role of key laboratory tests and interpret them to optimize product repletion
Recognize limitations in current guidelines while optimizing patient safety
Differentiate between classical and functional tests of hemostasis and determine when to order which test
