Measuring Activated Clotting Time during Cardiac Catheterization and PCI: The Effect of the Sampling Site.
Julius C HeemelaarT BerkhoutA A C M HeestermansJ C ZantA M J de VosN J W VeroudenMaurits Theodoor DirksenJ van RamshorstPublished in: Journal of interventional cardiology (2021)
The present study shows statistical significance and possibly clinically relevant variations between ACT measurements from different sample sites. Bias in ACT measurements may be minimized by using uniform protocols for ACT measurement during cardiac catheterization.