Click or tap this December, 2019 CAP Today "Best of Q&A" series answer to "Should a patient with a hematocrit greater than 55 percent be redrawn for correction always or only when prothrombin time and partial prothrombin time are elevated?" A shout out to Andrew Goodwin IV , MD, Department of Pathology, University of Vermont College of Medicine Burlington.
Relative to this discussion, refer to Heather DeVries's September, 2019 question and discussion about the effect of a high hematocrit on D-dimer testing.
