Method and apparatus for hemostasis and blood management
AssigneeHaemoscope Corporation
InventorsEli Cohen, Irene A. Navickas
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Abstract
A procedure for hemostasis and blood management, particularly for cardiovascular procedures, provides: sampling instructions, i.e., when to draw blood samples and how to pre-treat the blood samples, a decision tree to assist the interpretation of hemostasis analysis results allowing for the identification of various coagulopathies, and treatment suggestions related to the hemostasis analysis results. The analysis, interpretation and identification may be conducted by a suitably programmed computer.
Claims20
A method for hemostasis and blood product management during the course of a medical procedure, the method comprising the steps of:
- obtaining a plurality of blood samples from a subject of the medical procedure, one or more of the plurality of blood samples being drawn at multiple time points;
- subjecting each of the plurality of blood samples to a hemostasis analysis to provide a hemostasis parameter associated with the respective blood sample;
- providing results analysis criteria;
- evaluating the hemostasis parameter in accordance with the results analysis criteria to provide an evaluation result;
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- selecting a hemostasis and blood management protocol based upon the evaluation result.
An apparatus for hemostasis and blood management comprising:
- a blood hemostasis analyzer for providing a hemostasis parameter;
- a decision tree associated with the blood hemostasis analyzer, the decision tree including analysis criteria relating a coagulopathy with the hemostasis parameter.
An apparatus for hemostasis and blood management comprising:
- means for determining a hemostasis parameter from a blood sample;
- means for analyzing the hemostasis parameter relative to an analysis criteria for providing an analysis result;
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- means for identifying a hemostasis and blood management protocol based upon the analysis result.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.