Feasibility of allocating the freshest available red blood cells to critically ill patients: a pilot study

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• Conditions: blood transfusion in critically ill; Blood - Anaemia; Public Health - Epidemiology

• Registration Number: ACTRN12610000736044
• Lead Sponsor: Monash University

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2010-09-03
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ot yet recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 72

Inclusion Criteria

Patients hospitalised in the intensive care unit
Age equal or higher than 18 years
Require administration of at least one red blood cells unit

Exclusion Criteria

Palliative care
Transplant
Oncology and Haematology patients
Patients with known red blood cells antibodies requiring antigen negative units (Patients will be withdrawn from the study if the requirement for antigen-specific red cells is identified after randomisation)

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
the primary aim of this study is to determine feasibility of allocating the freshest available red blood cells in critically ill patients.<br>We will calculate the percentage of patients randomized among the eligible patients. The good communication between the intensive care unit-team and the blood bank team. and we will calculate the percentage of red blood cell packs younger than 7 days in each study group.[At the end of the 6 week study period];the primary aim of this study is to determine feasibility of allocating the freshest available red blood cells in critically ill patients[At the end of the 6 week study period]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The median age of all RBC units received by the freshest red blood cells (RBC) unit group will be compared to the median age of RBC units received by the standard care group[At the end of the 6 week study period];The median age of all RBC units received by the freshest red blood cells (RBC) unit group will be compared to the median age of RBC units received by the standard care group[At the end of the 6 week study period]