Age of transfused blood in critically ill adult trauma patients: a prespecified nested analysis of the Age of Blood Evaluation randomized trial.

CONCLUSION: In critically ill trauma patients, transfusion of fresh blood did not decrease 90-day mortality or secondary outcomes, a finding similar to the overall population of the ABLE trial.
PMID: 29672869 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Transfusion - April 19, 2018 Category: Hematology Authors: Green RS, Erdogan M, Lacroix J, Hébert PC, Tinmouth AT, Sabri E, Zhang T, Fergusson DA, Turgeon AF, ABLE Investigators and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group Tags: Transfusion Source Type: research