Includes bibliographical references and index.

Schematic presentation of the hemostatic system / Nils Egberg -- Proposals for sampling instructions / Margareta Blomb�ack and Nils Egberg -- Laboratory investigations / Jovan P. Antovic, Liselotte Onel�ov, and Nils Egberg -- Hereditary bleeding disorders / Margareta Holmstr�om and Lars-G�oran Lundberg -- Critical bleeding / Maria Bruzelius, Anna �Agren, and Hans Johnsson -- Investigation of increased bleeding tendency / Margareta Holmstr�om and Lars G�oran Lundberg -- Venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism / Anders Carlsson -- Investigations of thromboembolic tendency / Margareta Holmstr�om -- Heart disease / H�akan Wallen and Rickard Linder -- Antiplatelet drug therapy and reversal of its effects / H�akan Wallen, Hans Johnsson, and Bo-Michael Bellander -- New oral anticoagulants : focus on currently approved oral factor Xa and thombin inhibitors / Rickard E. Malmstr�om and Hans Johnsson -- Stroke and transient ischemic attack / Nils Wahlgren and Mia von Euler -- Peripheral artery surgery / Jesper Swedenborg -- Hemostasis in obstetrics and gynecology / Katarina Bremme -- Hemostasis in children / Susanna Ranta and Pia Petrini -- Emergency conditions associated with coagulation : DIC, HIT, and TTP/HUS / Jovan P. Antovic and Margareta Holmstr�om.