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. 2009 May 22;3:8. doi: 10.1186/1754-9493-3-8

Table 5.

Reports of resource utilization in bleeding patients with IMC

Category Count %
Extended LOS 18 100.0%

FFP 12 66.7%

RBC 10 55.6%

Vit K 10 55.6%

Steroids 8 44.4%

PLT 8 44.4%

IVIG 7 38.9%

Plasmapheresis 5 27.8%

Chemotherapy 3 16.7%

LOS – Length of stay; FFP – fresh frozen plasma; Vit K – vitamin K; IVIG – intravenous immune globulin; PLT – platelets; RBC – red blood cells

Interventions among the 18 bleeding patients for whom case reports contained documentation of managing immune-mediated coagulopathy [6,7,9,10,15-17,20,23,26,27,30,31,33,34].