From the Literature

Published: Oct 2016

Karkouti K, Callum J, Wijeysundera DN, et al.

Point-of-care hemostatic testing in cardiac surgery: a stepped-wedge clustered randomized controlled trial.
Circulation 2016;134:1152-1162.

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NATA REVIEW:
Karkouti et al. performed a pragmatic multicentre stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial...
REVIEW by:
D. Faraoni

Published: Oct 2016

Veigas PV, Callum J, Rizoli S, Nascimento B, da Luz LT

A systematic review on the rotational thrombelastometry (ROTEM(R)) values for the diagnosis of coagulopathy, prediction and guidance of blood transfusion and prediction of mortality in trauma patients.
Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2016;24:114.

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It has been argued that viscoelastic point-of-care testing provides faster and more accurate results than conventional...
REVIEW by:
T. Frietsch

Published: Oct 2016

Maung AA, Bhattacharya B, Schuster KM, Davis KA

Trauma patients on new oral anticoagulation agents have lower mortality than those on warfarin.
J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2016;81:652-657.

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In this retrospective study, the authors looked at mortality rates in trauma patients treated with direct oral...
REVIEW by:
D. Faraoni

Published: Oct 2016

Niepraschk-von Dollen K, Bamberg C, Henkelmann A, et al.

Predelivery maternal fibrinogen as a predictor of blood loss after vaginal delivery.
Arch Gynecol Obstet 2016;294:745-751.

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In this prospective single-centre cohort study, Niepraschk-von Dollen et al. found that predelivery...
REVIEW by:
M.-P. Bonnet

Published: Oct 2016

Voorn VM, van der Hout A, So-Osman C, et al.

Erythropoietin to reduce allogeneic red blood cell transfusion in patients undergoing total hip or knee arthroplasty.
Vox Sang 2016;111:219-225.

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The authors conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the benefits, the safety and the costs...
REVIEW by:
J.-F. Hardy

Published: Sep 2016

Connolly SJ, Milling TJ, Jr., Eikelboom JW, et al.

Andexanet alfa for acute major bleeding associated with factor Xa inhibitors.
N Engl J Med 2016;375:1131-1141.

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Anticoagulants are highly effective in reducing thromboembolic complications (mostly stroke in patients with...
REVIEW by:
M. Levi

Published: Sep 2016

Chassé M, Tinmouth A, English SW, et al.

Association of blood donor age and sex with recipient survival after red blood cell transfusion.
JAMA Intern Med 2016;176:1307-1314.

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This study investigated the impact of blood donor age and gender on RBC transfusion outcome. In solid organ transplantation,...
REVIEW by:
R. Moog

Published: Sep 2016

Ning S, Barty R, Liu Y, Heddle NM, Rochwerg B, Arnold DM

Platelet transfusion practices in the ICU: data from a large transfusion registry.
Chest 2016;150:516-523.

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This study by Ning et al. reports on platelet transfusion practices in 3 ICUs and includes 7073 non-oncologic...
REVIEW by:
M. Piagnerelli

Published: Sep 2016

Goobie SM, Faraoni D, Zurakowski D, DiNardo JA

Association of preoperative anemia with postoperative mortality in neonates.
JAMA Pediatr 2016;170:855-862.

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In this retrospective analysis of data collected in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality...
REVIEW by:
J. Lacroix

Published: Sep 2016

Chung KW, Basavaraju SV, Mu Y, et al.

Declining blood collection and utilization in the United States.
Transfusion 2016;56:2184-2192.

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The authors report an analysis of the 2013 Blood Collection and Utilization Survey results by the US Department...
REVIEW by:
L. T. Goodnough

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