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Red Blood Cell Transfusions Impact Pneumonia Rates After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting [1]

Submitted by mferguson [2] on Fri, 2015-09-04 07:26

This study from the Michigan Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons Quality Collaborative evaluated outcomes of CABG in 33 hospitals 2011-2013, assessing the association of blood transfusion (39.9% of pts) and the incidence of postoperative pneumonia (3.6% of pts).   Blood transfusion was associated with an increased risk of pneumonia (OR 3.4), and there was a dose-response relationship between the number of units transfused and pneumonia risk. 

Source name: 
Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Resource link: 
http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975%2815%2900579-2/abstract [3]
Taxonomy: 
Intensive Care [4]
Coronary Disease - Surgery [5]
Subspecialty(ies): 
Cardiac [6]
Critical Care [7]
Author(s): 
Donald S. Likosky, Gaetano Paone, Min Zhang, Mary A.M. Rogers, Steven D. Harrington, Patricia F. Theurer, Alphonse DeLucia III, Astrid Fishstrom, Anton Camaj, Richard L. Prager, for the Michigan Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons Quality Collaborative.
Taxonomy2018 vocabulary term reference: 
Critical Care [8]
Coronary disease [9]
Source URL:https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/red-blood-cell-transfusions-impact-pneumonia-rates-after-coronary-artery-bypass-grafting

Links
[1] https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/red-blood-cell-transfusions-impact-pneumonia-rates-after-coronary-artery-bypass-grafting [2] https://www.ctsnet.org/home/mferguson [3] http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(15)00579-2/abstract [4] https://www.ctsnet.org/taxonomy/intensive-care [5] https://www.ctsnet.org/taxonomy/coronary-disease-surgery [6] https://www.ctsnet.org/categories/cardiac [7] https://www.ctsnet.org/subspecialtyies/critical-care [8] https://www.ctsnet.org/taxonomy2018/critical-care [9] https://www.ctsnet.org/taxonomy2018/coronary-disease