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Study of Immediate Postoperative Bleeding

Maj Teruo Matsumoto, MC; K. C. Pani, MD; Col Robert M. Hardaway, III, MC; Fred Leonard, PhD; Maj Charles A. Heisterkamp, MC

AMA Arch Surg. 1967;94(2):187-189.

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SURGERY upon patients who have clotting deficiencies or are receiving anticoagulants is a difficult problem. These situations, although not too common, are important from the surgical standpoint. When the patient is known to have clotting deficiency or has been anticoagulated, careful preparations to promote the clotting and all available precautions should be undertaken in elective surgery.

However, in an emergency situation in which the clotting deficiency cannot be altered in a short period, surgery may add further complications and even cause death in the postoperative period because of hemorrhage. On some occasions it is desirable to continue the anticoagulation treatment during and after surgery.

Since cyanoacrylate tissue adhesives polymerize in the presence of moisture on the wound,¹ this factor may be used advantageously in the above situations. The methyl cyanoacrylate monomer has been successfully used for hemostasis in suture line hemorrhage of sutured Teflon patch on the canine aorta. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
USA; USA; USA; Washington, DC

From the Division of Surgery, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC. Drs. Pani and Leonard are with the US Army Medical Biomechanical Research Laboratory, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Nov 14, 1966.

Reprint requests to Division of Surgery, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC 20012 (Maj Matsumoto).

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