A survey on perioperative red blood cell transfusion trigger strategies for pediatric patients in the Nordic countries.

Anesthesiologists in the Nordic countries report restrictive perioperative RBC transfusion strategies for children that are mostly in agreement with the international TAXI recommendations. However, RBC transfusions strategies were modified to be guided by more liberal trigger levels when pediatric patients presented with severe comorbidity such as severe sepsis, septic shock, and non-life-threatening bleeding.