welcomes you to the new, improved website!This multicenter randomized trial examined restrictive versus liberal threshold in red-cell transfusion in patients after cardiac surgery. The results were provocative, with more deaths in the restrictiv group compared to the liberal transfusion group. Posoperative complications were also slightly higher in the restrictive group.
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Liberal or Restrictive Transfusion after Cardiac Surgery
Submitted by: Tom C. Nguyen
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
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Author(s): Gavin J. Murphy, F.R.C.S., Katie Pike, M.Sc., Chris A. Rogers, Ph.D., Sarah Wordsworth, Ph.D., Elizabeth A. Stokes, M.Sc., Gianni D. Angelini, F.R.C.S., and Barnaby C. Reeves, D.Phil. for the TITRe2 Investigators
