… life saving, transfusion carries … transfusion and risk of major infection after cardiac surgery.
In all, 5,158 adults were prospectively enrolled to assess infections after cardiac surgery. The …

… practices and thus some patients receive transfusions inappropriately, … transfusion practice
in the perioperative cardiac surgical setting. For this purpose, the transfusion of different blood …

… is used in less than 20% of cardiac units.9 Both techniques have cost … during cardiac surgery
intraoperative cell salvage would reduce the need for allogeneic red blood cell transfusion, …

… Blood transfusion is commonly used in cardiac surgical patients and accounts for about 10-20%
of blood transfused… are tremendous variations in transfusion practices among physicians …

… cardiac surgery to correct anemia caused by blood loss and … test the hypothesis that blood
transfusion has beneficial effects on … before and after blood transfusion during cardiac surgery. …

… blood transfusion on the incidence of clinical outcomes postoperatively (PO) from cardiac
surgery… between patients with blood transfusion (n = 916) and non-blood transfusion (n = 3112)…

… , transfusion was still associated with a higher complication and mortality rate in these
patients… Our results indicate that blood transfusion should be used judiciously in cardiac surgery …

… patients receiving blood transfusion have significantly longer time for tracheal extubation,
ICULOS, PLOS and higher morbidity and 30-day hospital mortality. Blood transfusion was an …

… Although blood transfusion is common after cardiac surgery, a minority of patients … of blood
products transfused after cardiac procedures [5]. Therefore, simply receiving a transfusion …

… blood transfusions and patient outcomes in cardiac surgery … on blood transfusions and
patient outcomes in cardiac surgery… designed to reduce RBC transfusions, they also specifically …