Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
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J. Cardiothorac. Vasc. Anesth.
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J. Cardiothorac. Vasc. Anesth. · Dec 2006
Calcium supplementation of saline-based colloids does not produce equivalent coagulation profiles to similarly balanced salt preparations.
The primary objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that calcium alone does not account for the observed coagulation differences between saline-based and balanced electrolyte IV fluid preparations. ⋯ The different coagulation profiles between the 2 pentastarch preparations, as well as similar profiles of pentastarch in saline and hetastarch in balanced electrolyte solution, suggest that calcium is not solely responsible for previously observed effects.