Platelet Transfusion Practice and Related Outcomes in Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe factors associated with platelet transfusion during pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and the relationships among platelet transfusion, complications, and mortality.

Design

Secondary analysis of data collected prospectively by the Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network between December 2012 and September 2014.

Setting

Eight Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network-affiliated hospitals.

Patients

Age less than 19 years old and treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Of 511 children, 496 (97.1%) received at least one platelet transfusion during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Neonatal age, venoarterial extracorporeal membra

SUBMITTER: Cashen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7007856 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature