The long-term impact of perioperative red blood transfusion on patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with perioperative PRBC transfusions have increased operative and long-term mortality and hospital readmissions. Total units of PRBC transfused was directly associated with mortality and readmissions. PMID: 33171175 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - November 7, 2020 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Sultan I, Bianco V, Brown JA, Kilic A, Harbertheuer A, Aranda-Michel E, Navid F, Humar R, Wang Y, Gleason TG Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research