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Older Blood Is Associated With Increased Mortality and Adverse Events in Massively Transfused Trauma Patients: Secondary Analysis of the PROPPR Trial. Ann Emerg Med 2019 Jun;73(6):650-661

Date

11/19/2018

Pubmed ID

30447946

Pubmed Central ID

PMC6517091

DOI

10.1016/j.annemergmed.2018.09.033

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85056659395 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   42 Citations

Abstract

STUDY OBJECTIVE: The transfusion of older packed RBCs may be harmful in critically ill patients. We seek to determine the association between packed RBC age and mortality among trauma patients requiring massive packed RBC transfusion.

METHODS: We analyzed data from the Pragmatic, Randomized Optimal Platelet and Plasma Ratios trial. Subjects in the parent trial included critically injured adult patients admitted to 1 of 12 North American Level I trauma centers who received at least 1 unit of packed RBCs and were predicted to require massive blood transfusion. The primary exposure was volume of packed RBC units transfused during the first 24 hours of hospitalization, stratified by packed RBC age category: 0 to 7 days, 8 to 14 days, 15 to 21 days, and greater than or equal to 22 days. The primary outcome was 24-hour mortality. We evaluated the association between transfused volume of each packed RBC age category and 24-hour survival, using random-effects logistic regression, adjusting for total packed RBC volume, patient age, sex, race, mechanism of injury, Injury Severity Score, Revised Trauma Score, clinical site, and trial treatment group.

RESULTS: The 678 patients included in the analysis received a total of 8,830 packed RBC units. One hundred patients (14.8%) died within the first 24 hours. On multivariable analysis, the number of packed RBCs greater than or equal to 22 days old was independently associated with increased 24-hour mortality (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 1.05 per packed RBC unit; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.01 to 1.08): OR 0.97 for 0 to 7 days old (95% CI 0.88 to 1.08), OR 1.04 for 8 to 14 days old (95% CI 0.99 to 1.09), and OR 1.02 for 15 to 21 days old (95% CI 0.98 to 1.06). Results of sensitivity analyses were similar only among patients who received greater than or equal to 10 packed RBC units.

CONCLUSION: Increasing quantities of older packed RBCs are associated with increased likelihood of 24-hour mortality in trauma patients receiving massive packed RBC transfusion (≥10 units), but not in those who receive fewer than 10 units.

Author List

Jones AR, Patel RP, Marques MB, Donnelly JP, Griffin RL, Pittet JF, Kerby JD, Stephens SW, DeSantis SM, Hess JR, Wang HE, PROPPR Study Group

Authors

Tom P. Aufderheide MD Professor in the Emergency Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Olga Y. Kaslow MD, PhD Professor in the Anesthesiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
David J. Milia MD Professor in the Surgery department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Adult
Blood Preservation
Blood Transfusion
Critical Illness
Female
Hospital Mortality
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Odds Ratio
Trauma Centers