RBC Transfusion Practice in Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine RBC transfusion practice and relationships between RBC transfusion volume and mortality in infants and children treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

Design

Secondary analysis of a multicenter prospective observational study.

Setting

Eight pediatric institutions within the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network.

Patients

Patients age less than 19 years old treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation at a participating center.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Clinical data and target hemoglobin or hematocrit values (if set) were recorded daily by trained bedside extracorporeal membrane oxygenati

SUBMITTER: Muszynski JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6085106 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature