Storage time of red blood cells among ICU patients with septic shock.
Sofie Louise RygårdLars GrønlykkeAnders PernerPer WinkelTheis LangeLars Broksø HolstPär I JohanssonAnders ÅnemanThorsten BrodersenEva LaurénHenrik UllumJorn WetterslevPublished in: Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (2019)
Patients with septic shock were transfused both before and after ICU. Exposure to blood of less than 7 days or more than 24 days old were limited. We were not able to detect higher mortality among the limited number of patients with septic shock transfused with very fresh or very old blood.