Age of Red Cells for Transfusion and Outcomes in Critically Ill Adults

doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1707572

Randomized Controlled Trial

. 2017 Nov 9;377(19):1858-1867.

doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1707572. Epub 2017 Sep 27.

Age of Red Cells for Transfusion and Outcomes in Critically Ill Adults

D James Cooper¹, Zoe K McQuilten¹, Alistair Nichol¹, Bridget Ady¹, Cécile Aubron¹, Michael Bailey¹, Rinaldo Bellomo¹, Dashiell Gantner¹, David O Irving¹, Kirsi-Maija Kaukonen¹, Colin McArthur¹, Lynne Murray¹, Ville Pettilä¹, Craig French¹; TRANSFUSE Investigators and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group

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Collaborators

TRANSFUSE Investigators and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group:
P Mondy, N Orford, J Presneill, M Reade, A Webb, S Vallance, C Mashonganyika, C Maher, J Board, P McCracken, M Young, S McGuinness, E Gilder, K Cowdrey, L McCarthy, R Parke, K Benefield, R McConnochie, G Eastwood, H Young, L Peck, R Dwyer, M Large, J Fletcher, J Smith, D Ghelani, K Nand, T Sara, A Rashid, I Bailey, G Ding, K Smith, J Barrett, V Sarode, G Hanlon, F Van Haren, H Rodgers, S Noble, S Henderson, J Mehrtens, P Seigne, E Neau, V Sanjiv, K Shepherd, E Blasquez, D France, R Hutchinson, I Carney, C Green, C Allen, A M Palermo, M Scully, C Cattigan, A Bone, B Richards, M Tallot, R Cameron, K Ellis, K Salmela, S Sutinen, J Brieva, M Hardie, S A Solamy, N A Assmi, S Bernard, C Serban, H White, J Sutton, C Motherwell, P Thomas, N Soar, A Kazemi, A Tilsey, K Gregory, D Ernest, P Galt, B King, F Simmons, L Cole, L Weisbrodt, J Liang, D Hacking, J Bell, A Ghosh, S Said, Y Shehabi, N Straiton, P Kruger, E Venz, E Saylor, J Meyer, K Wetzig, S Peake, C Kurendra, P Williams, D Evans, S Kloeden, S O’Connor, J Butler, P Jarrett, D Cooper, R McAllister, C MacIsaac, A Jordan, T Bowles, E Jenkinson, D Gattas, D Hutch, H Buhr, K Deshpande, D Inskip, J Miller, T Ryan, E O'Toole, A Regli, A Palermo, J Santamaria, J Holmes, M Nicolls, C Reynolds, K McCann, S Leow, A Westbrook, E Meaney, K Brickell, S Bates, A Kuitunen, A Kukkurainen, S Varila, P May, B Stehr, A Forrest, J Barlow-Armstrong, B Ure, S Hurford, R Sol Cruz, M Sterba, B Johnson, P Diaz, S Mattos, S Sirigireddy, G Shuttleworth, P Flanagan, C Smith, D Medley, W Murphy, B Quirke, M Barry, E Kerkelä, T Krusius, J Nikkilä, M Syrjälä, K Al Khairy, F Alsaqri, H Al Wasel, E Osman, M Galligan, G Guyatt, C Brun-Buisson, N Heddle, S Walter, A Higgins, V Singh, P Doran, P Murray, C Fahey, L Burke, J Laffey, D McAuley, J Fitzgerald

Affiliation

¹ From the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University (D.J.C., Z.K.M., A.N., B.A., C.A., M.B., R.B., D.G., K.-M.K., L.M., C.F.), the Department of Intensive Care, Alfred Hospital (D.J.C., A.N., D.G.), the Department of Haematology, Monash Health (Z.K.M.), the Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital (R.B.), the University of Melbourne (R.B., C.F.), Research and Development, Australian Red Cross Blood Service (D.O.I.), and the Department of Intensive Care, Western Health (C.F.) - all in Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Irish Critical Care Clinical Trials Network, University College Dublin Clinical Research Centre at St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin (A.N.); the Département de Médecine Intensive Réanimation, Brest University Hospital, Brest, France (C.A.); the Department of Anesthesiology (K.-M.K.) and the Division of Intensive Care, Department of Anesthesiology (V.P.), Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki; and the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand and the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand (C.M.).

PMID: 28952891
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1707572

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Randomized Controlled Trial

Age of Red Cells for Transfusion and Outcomes in Critically Ill Adults

D James Cooper et al. N Engl J Med. 2017.

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. 2017 Nov 9;377(19):1858-1867.

doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1707572. Epub 2017 Sep 27.

Authors

Collaborators

TRANSFUSE Investigators and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group:
P Mondy, N Orford, J Presneill, M Reade, A Webb, S Vallance, C Mashonganyika, C Maher, J Board, P McCracken, M Young, S McGuinness, E Gilder, K Cowdrey, L McCarthy, R Parke, K Benefield, R McConnochie, G Eastwood, H Young, L Peck, R Dwyer, M Large, J Fletcher, J Smith, D Ghelani, K Nand, T Sara, A Rashid, I Bailey, G Ding, K Smith, J Barrett, V Sarode, G Hanlon, F Van Haren, H Rodgers, S Noble, S Henderson, J Mehrtens, P Seigne, E Neau, V Sanjiv, K Shepherd, E Blasquez, D France, R Hutchinson, I Carney, C Green, C Allen, A M Palermo, M Scully, C Cattigan, A Bone, B Richards, M Tallot, R Cameron, K Ellis, K Salmela, S Sutinen, J Brieva, M Hardie, S A Solamy, N A Assmi, S Bernard, C Serban, H White, J Sutton, C Motherwell, P Thomas, N Soar, A Kazemi, A Tilsey, K Gregory, D Ernest, P Galt, B King, F Simmons, L Cole, L Weisbrodt, J Liang, D Hacking, J Bell, A Ghosh, S Said, Y Shehabi, N Straiton, P Kruger, E Venz, E Saylor, J Meyer, K Wetzig, S Peake, C Kurendra, P Williams, D Evans, S Kloeden, S O’Connor, J Butler, P Jarrett, D Cooper, R McAllister, C MacIsaac, A Jordan, T Bowles, E Jenkinson, D Gattas, D Hutch, H Buhr, K Deshpande, D Inskip, J Miller, T Ryan, E O'Toole, A Regli, A Palermo, J Santamaria, J Holmes, M Nicolls, C Reynolds, K McCann, S Leow, A Westbrook, E Meaney, K Brickell, S Bates, A Kuitunen, A Kukkurainen, S Varila, P May, B Stehr, A Forrest, J Barlow-Armstrong, B Ure, S Hurford, R Sol Cruz, M Sterba, B Johnson, P Diaz, S Mattos, S Sirigireddy, G Shuttleworth, P Flanagan, C Smith, D Medley, W Murphy, B Quirke, M Barry, E Kerkelä, T Krusius, J Nikkilä, M Syrjälä, K Al Khairy, F Alsaqri, H Al Wasel, E Osman, M Galligan, G Guyatt, C Brun-Buisson, N Heddle, S Walter, A Higgins, V Singh, P Doran, P Murray, C Fahey, L Burke, J Laffey, D McAuley, J Fitzgerald

Affiliation

¹ From the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University (D.J.C., Z.K.M., A.N., B.A., C.A., M.B., R.B., D.G., K.-M.K., L.M., C.F.), the Department of Intensive Care, Alfred Hospital (D.J.C., A.N., D.G.), the Department of Haematology, Monash Health (Z.K.M.), the Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital (R.B.), the University of Melbourne (R.B., C.F.), Research and Development, Australian Red Cross Blood Service (D.O.I.), and the Department of Intensive Care, Western Health (C.F.) - all in Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Irish Critical Care Clinical Trials Network, University College Dublin Clinical Research Centre at St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin (A.N.); the Département de Médecine Intensive Réanimation, Brest University Hospital, Brest, France (C.A.); the Department of Anesthesiology (K.-M.K.) and the Division of Intensive Care, Department of Anesthesiology (V.P.), Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki; and the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand and the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand (C.M.).

PMID: 28952891
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1707572

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Age of Red Cells for Transfusion and Outcomes in Critically Ill Adults.
[No authors listed] [No authors listed] N Engl J Med. 2019 Aug 29;381(9):890. doi: 10.1056/NEJMx180024. Epub 2019 Aug 1. N Engl J Med. 2019. PMID: 31465685 No abstract available.

Abstract

Background: It is uncertain whether the duration of red-cell storage affects mortality after transfusion among critically ill adults.

Methods: In an international, multicenter, randomized, double-blind trial, we assigned critically ill adults to receive either the freshest available, compatible, allogeneic red cells (short-term storage group) or standard-issue (oldest available), compatible, allogeneic red cells (long-term storage group). The primary outcome was 90-day mortality.

Results: From November 2012 through December 2016, at 59 centers in five countries, 4994 patients underwent randomization and 4919 (98.5%) were included in the primary analysis. Among the 2457 patients in the short-term storage group, the mean storage duration was 11.8 days. Among the 2462 patients in the long-term storage group, the mean storage duration was 22.4 days. At 90 days, there were 610 deaths (24.8%) in the short-term storage group and 594 (24.1%) in the long-term storage group (absolute risk difference, 0.7 percentage points; 95% confidence interval [CI], -1.7 to 3.1; P=0.57). At 180 days, the absolute risk difference was 0.4 percentage points (95% CI, -2.1 to 3.0; P=0.75). Most of the prespecified secondary measures showed no significant between-group differences in outcome.

Conclusions: The age of transfused red cells did not affect 90-day mortality among critically ill adults. (Funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council and others; TRANSFUSE Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry number, ACTRN12612000453886 ; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01638416 .).

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