Anemia prevalence and incidence and red blood cell transfusion practices in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: results of a multicenter cohort study

Anemia prevalence and incidence and red blood cell transfusion practices in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: results of a multicenter cohort study

Abstract Background Whether a restrictive strategy for red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is applied to patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) is unclear. To inform the design and conduct of a future clinical trial, we sought to describe transfusion practices, hemoglobin (Hb) triggers...

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Main Authors: Shane W. English, Michaël Chassé, Alexis F. Turgeon, François Lauzier, Donald Griesdale, Allan Garland, Dean Fergusson, Ryan Zarychanski, Carl van Walraven, Kaitlyn Montroy, Jennifer Ziegler, Raphael Dupont-Chouinard, Raphaëlle Carignan, Andy Dhaliwal, Ranjeeta Mallick, John Sinclair, Amélie Boutin, Giuseppe Pagliarello, Alan Tinmouth, Lauralyn McIntyre, on behalf of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-07-01
Series:Critical Care
Subjects:
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Cerebral aneurysm
Anemia
Red blood cell transfusion
Cohort study
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13054-018-2089-7

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