Red Blood Cell Transfusion in European Neonatal Intensive Care Units, 2022 to 2023.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Red blood cell (RBC) transfusions are frequently administered to preterm infants born before 32 weeks of gestation in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Two randomized clinical trials (Effects of Transfusion Thresholds on Neurocognitive Outcomes of Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infants [ETTNO] and Transfusion of Prematures [TOP]) found that liberal RBC transfusion thresholds are nonsuperior to restrictive thresholds, but the extent to which these results have been integrated into clinical practice since publication in 2020 is unknown.

Objective

To describe neonatal RBC transfusion practice in Europe.

Design, setting, and participants

This international prospective observational cohort study collected data between September 1, 2022, and August 31, 2023, w

SUBMITTER: Houben NAM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11413711 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature