Platelet count may predict abnormal bleeding time among pregnant women with hypertension and preeclampsia

BackgroundAnesthesiologists often require laboratory data to estimate the bleeding risk among hypertensive pregnant women prior to administering regional anesthesia. Many rely on the bleeding time (BT) in making this determination. We examined whether the platelet count can adequately predict BT among a group of hypertensive parturients.MethodsThis retrospective subgroup analysis, taken from a cohort of 2051 hypertensive pregnant women, …