Transfusion Practices in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Requiring Cardiopulmonary Bypass: A Secondary Analysis of a Clinical Database.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe blood component usage in transfused children with congenital heart disease undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass surgery across perioperative settings and diagnostic categories.

Design

Datasets from U.S. hospitals participating in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study-III were analyzed.

Setting

Inpatient admissions from three U.S. hospitals from 2013 to 2016.

Patients

Transfused children with congenital heart disease undergoing single ventricular, biventricular surgery, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Eight hundred eighty-two transfused patients were included. Most of the 185 children with single ventricular surgery r

SUBMITTER: Hanson SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8570986 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature