RBC Transfusions Are Associated With Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation in Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Blood products are often transfused in critically ill children, although recent studies have recognized their potential for harm. Translatability to pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome is unknown given that hypoxemia has excluded pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome patients from clinical trials. We aimed to determine whether an association exists between blood product transfusion and survival or duration of ventilation in pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Design

Retrospective analysis of prospectively enrolled cohort.

Setting

Large, academic PICU.

Patients

Invasively ventilated children meeting Berlin Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference Pediatric Acute Respiratory D

SUBMITTER: Zubrow ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5796837 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature