I'm currently sitting with a pt with this arrangement in the cardiothoracic ICU. This greatly helped me with understanding the function of this method. Thank you!
The R time will represent the “ initiation “ of the clot ,so as to say formation of the first fibrin strand. While as Clotting time ( ROTEM etc) represents the time taken to form a complete clot ......is this right ? Or are R time and CT analogous completely to each other?