Administration of platelets to ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm patients before open surgery: a prospective, single-blinded, randomised study.
T B LunenP I JohanssonL P JensenK M HomburgO C RoederL LonnN H SecherU HelgstrandM CarstensenK B JensenT LangeH SillesenF SwiatekHenning Bay NielsenPublished in: Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) (2018)
For patients planned for open repair of a rAAA, we observed no significant effect of early administration of platelets with regard to post-operative complications and stay in the ICU or in hospital and also no significant effect on mortality.
Keyphrases
- end stage renal disease
- abdominal aortic aneurysm
- minimally invasive
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- healthcare
- randomized controlled trial
- prognostic factors
- cardiovascular disease
- type diabetes
- study protocol
- cardiovascular events
- emergency department
- risk factors
- patient reported outcomes
- brain injury
- placebo controlled
- red blood cell