Blood transfusion in cardiac surgery is a risk factor for increased hospital length of stay in adult patients

Filomena Regina Barbosa Gomes Galas,J Almeida,J Fukushima,E Osawa,R Nakamura,Carolina Silva,Elisangela Pinto Marinho de Almeida,José Otávio Costa Auler,Jean Louis Vincent,Ludhmila Abrahão Hajjar

Blood transfusion in cardiac surgery is a risk factor for increased hospital length of stay in adult patients

2013

Filomena Regina Barbosa Gomes Galas
J Almeida
J Fukushima
E Osawa
R Nakamura
Carolina Silva
Elisangela Pinto Marinho de Almeida
José Otávio Costa Auler
Jean Louis Vincent
Ludhmila Abrahão Hajjar

Background Allogeneic red blood cell (RBC) transfusion has been proposed as a negative indicator of quality in cardiac surgery. Hospital length of stay (LOS) may be a surrogate of poor outcome in transfused patients.

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Surgery
Proportional hazards model
Blood transfusion
Risk factor
Cardiac surgery
Red blood cell
Cardiothoracic surgery
Medicine
length of hospitalization
adult patients

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