The potential usefulness of thrombelastography in quality monitoring and quality improvement of blood components.

摘要

Thrombelastography (TEG) technology is a cell-based methodology for analysis of the viscoelastic changes that occur during coagulation of a whole blood sample in vitro, providing a unique opportunity to evaluate initiation, propagation, formation and stability of the clot strength of citrated blood and the derived haemostatic components. The potential clinical applications of modern TEG are well established. This brief report deals with additional potential applications of TEG in quality monitoring of haemostatic blood components, for clinical use. This is of particular relevance as with the recent technological advances, the TEG technology becomes well standardised and digitalisation of the procedure made it possible to be used as an essential tool in monitoring haemostasis in either laboratory or near the bed side.