Quality Assurance and Quality Control of Thrombelastography and Rotational Thromboelastometry: The UK NEQAS for Blood Coagulation Experience

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (07) ◽  
pp. 757-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianne Kitchen ◽  
Steve Kitchen ◽  
Ian Jennings ◽  
Tim Woods ◽  
Isobel Walker
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Blood Coagulation ◽  
Rotational Thromboelastometry ◽  
The Uk

International Quality Control In Blood Coagulation: Measurement Of Fibrinogen

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Thomson ◽  
L Poller ◽  
K Yee
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Blood Coagulation ◽  
Thrombin Time

Fibrinogen estimations were included in four of the collaborative exercises from the above Centre between 1976-1978. More than thirty different techniques were employed by participants in over four hundred laboratories. The thrombin time, fibrinogen titre and turbidity techniques showed poor discrimination between normal and low fibrinogen levels compared with other routine methods e.g. Clauss technique, immunological and clot weight methods.

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