CASE 12-2016 Ascending Aorta Dissection in a Jehovah's Witness Patient on Warfarin

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2016 Dec;30(6):1709-1715. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2016.02.029. Epub 2016 Mar 3.

¹ Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
² Department of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
³ Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy. Electronic address: landoni.giovanni@hsr.it.
⁴ Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
⁵ Department of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
⁶ Institute of Anaesthesiology, Bad Oeynhausen, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany.
⁷ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
⁸ Department of Anesthesia, Surgical Intensive Care, Prehospital Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁹ Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.

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Keywords: Jehovah's Witness; anesthesia; bleeding; cardiac anesthesia; cardiac surgery; coagulation; hemostasis; intensive care.

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