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Table 2 Author and year, type of patients examined and reason for exclusion in excluded scrutinized references

From: The use of viscoelastic haemostatic assays in goal-directing treatment with allogeneic blood products – A systematic review and meta-analysis

Reference (Author and year)

Condition

Reason for exclusion

Agarwal 2015 [46]

Cardiac surgery

Focus on platelet function testing

Branco 2014 [47]

Trauma

Observational trial

Brilej 2016 [48]

Trauma

Observational trial

Capraro 2001 [49]

Cardiac surgery

No use of VHA

Despotis 1994 (a) [50]

Cardiac surgery

No use of VHA

Despotis 1994 (b) [51]

Cardiac surgery

No use of VHA

Dietrich 2008 [52]

Cardiac surgery

Focus on TXA-therapy

Einersen 2016 [53]

Trauma

Observational trial

Hajek 2010 [54]

Cardiac surgery

Intervention group is managed both with CCT and VHA-analyses

Hanke 2012 [55]

Aortic surgery

Not randomised – matched control group

Harding 1997 [56]

Liver transplantation

Observational trial

Helm 1998 [57]

Cardiac surgery

Not randomised – matched control group

Hoenicka 2015 [58]

Cardiac surgery

Focus on heparin management

Hopkins 1983 [59]

Acute hypotension

General treatment algorithm

Israelian 2009 [60]

Neuro surgery

Possibly relevant. Manuscript not available for reading. Contact information of corresponding author not available.

Karkouti 2016 [61]

Cardiac surgery

Stepped-Wedge Clustered RCT

Levin 2014 [62]

Cardiac surgery

Focus on protamine-administration

Lier 2009 [63]

Trauma

Review

Mallaiah 2015 [64]

Obstetric haemorrhage

Before-after trial

Manikappa 2011 [65]

Cardiac surgery

Whole blood transfusions

Messenger 2011 [66]

Trauma

Prospective cohort study

Mishra 2015 [67]

Cardiac surgery

Focus on platelet function testing

Naik 2015 [68]

Major spinal surgery

Non-randomised

Petricevic 2013 [69]

Cardiac surgery

Observational trial

Rahe-Meyer 2009 [70]

Aortic surgery

Non-randomised

Roullet 2015 [71]

Orthotopic liver transplantation

Non-randomised

Smart 2015 [72]

Orthotopic liver transplantation

Retrospective non-randomised trial

Stancheva 2011 [73]

Orthotopic liver transplantation

Observational trial

Tarabarin 2013 [74]

Bile duct surgery

Possibly relevant. Manuscript not available for reading. Contact information of corresponding author not available.

Weitzel 2012 [75]

Cardiac surgery

Focus on platelet function

Xu 2014 [76]

Cardiac surgery

Focus on platelet function testing

  1. VHA viscoelastic haemostatic assay, TXA tranexamic acid