Figure 3.

The Death Diamond (DD) is defined as an rTEG tracing with a time to maximum amplitude of ≤14 min and time from maximum amplitude to total lysis of <30 min, which is highly predictive of death. For the TEG 5000, the figure is similar to that of the TEG 6s cartridge system even though the cup and pin system of the TEG 5000 differs from the non-contact LED ultrasound membrane technique of the TEG 6s. In both systems, the TEG patterns are displayed on the screen and the decisions can be made based on a review of the tracing patterns and quantitative parameters [40,80,81,90].