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LUIS TEODORO DA LUZ

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
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[HTML][HTML] Effect of thromboelastography (TEG®) and rotational thromboelastometry (ROTEM®) on diagnosis of coagulopathy, transfusion guidance and mortality in …

LT Da Luz, B Nascimento, AK Shankarakutty, S Rizoli… - Critical Care, 2014 - Springer
Introduction The understanding of coagulopathies in trauma has increased interest in
thromboelastography (TEG®) and thromboelastometry (ROTEM®), which promptly evaluate the …

[HTML][HTML] TEG® and ROTEM® in trauma: similar test but different results?

…, B Nascimento, L Teodoro da Luz… - World Journal of …, 2012 - Springer
Introduction Transfusion in trauma is often empiric or based on traditional lab tests. Viscoelastic
tests such as thromboelastography (TEG ® ) and rotational thromboelastometry (ROTEM …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review on the rotational thrombelastometry (ROTEM®) values for the diagnosis of coagulopathy, prediction and guidance of blood transfusion …

…, J Callum, S Rizoli, B Nascimento, LT da Luz - Scandinavian journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Introduction Viscoelastic assays have been promoted as an improvement over traditional
coagulation tests in the management of trauma patients. Rotational thromboelastometry (…

[HTML][HTML] Thrombelastography (TEG®): practical considerations on its clinical use in trauma resuscitation

LT da Luz, B Nascimento, S Rizoli - Scandinavian journal of trauma …, 2013 - Springer
Background Thrombelastography is a laboratorial test that measures viscoelastic changes of
the entire clotting process. There is growing interest in its clinical use in trauma resuscitation…

[HTML][HTML] Catecholamines as outcome markers in isolated traumatic brain injury: the COMA-TBI study

…, SG Rhind, AC Neto, L da Costa, K Inaba, LT da Luz… - Critical Care, 2017 - Springer
Background Elevated catecholamine levels might be associated with unfavorable outcome
after traumatic brain injury (TBI). We investigated the association between catecholamine …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial intelligence and machine learning for hemorrhagic trauma care

…, MM Siddiqui, SG Rhind, J Zhang, LT da Luz… - Military Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Artificial intelligence (AI), a branch of machine learning (ML) has been increasingly employed
in the research of trauma in various aspects. Hemorrhage is the most common cause of …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic Review of Human and Animal Studies Examining the Efficacy and Safety of N-Acetylcysteine (NAC) and N-Acetylcysteine Amide (NACA) in …

…, SG Rhind, H Tien, A Nathens, LT Da Luz - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Background No new therapies for traumatic brain injury (TBI) have been officially translated
into current practice. At the tissue and cellular level, both inflammatory and oxidative …

[HTML][HTML] Fresh whole blood transfusion capability for Special Operations Forces

MA Beckett, J Callum, LT da Luz, J Schmid… - Canadian Journal of …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Fresh whole blood (FWB) transfusion is an option for providing volume and oxygen carrying
capacity to bleeding Special Operations soldiers who are injured in an austere environment …

[HTML][HTML] Freeze-dried plasma for major trauma–Systematic review and meta-analysis

…, K Karkouti, A Beckett, LT da Luz - Journal of Trauma …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND Treatment of acute trauma coagulopathy has shifted toward rapid replacement
of coagulation factors with frozen plasma (FP). There are logistic difficulties in providing …

Does the evidence support the importance of high transfusion ratios of plasma and platelets to red blood cells in improving outcomes in severely injured patients: a …

LT da Luz, PS Shah, R Strauss, AA Mohammed… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Deaths by exsanguination in trauma are preventable with hemorrhage
control and resuscitation with allogeneic blood products (ABPs). The ideal transfusion ratio is …