Figure 2.

Viscoelastic parameters with addition of fibrinogen

Increasing concentrations of fibrinogen were added to samples (patients 6–8) which then showed a dose response curve for the AA (A) and amplitudes (C) parameters, suggesting the benefit of cryoprecipitate over fibrinogen may be consistent with increased fibrinogen concentration alone. By contrast, there was no dose-response curve with CT (B), suggesting the unique effect of cryoprecipitate on CT was not simply due to increased fibrinogen concentration.