Towards perioperative point-of-care viscoelastic testing

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  • PF Wessels Ampath Laboratories

Abstract

In October this year, it will be seventy-five years since Helmut Hartert, at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, described a “new” method of detecting the changes in blood clotting from a viscous to a more elastic clot, known as “thrombus stressography.”1 The apparatus measured the changes in resistance when applying a continuous rotational force to whole blood. 

Author Biography

PF Wessels, Ampath Laboratories

Clinical haematologist, Ampath Laboratories, Life Groenkloof Hospital and Lecturer, Department of Medical Oncology, University of Pretoria, South Africa

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Published

2023-06-19

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Editorial