Blood Conservation in Cardiac Surgery Using a Novel Transfusion Algorithm Based on Point-of-care Testing-A Stepped-wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 7,402
- 试验地点
- 22
- 主要终点
- Point Of Care (POC) Transfusion Algorithm Cardiac Study
研究概览
简要总结
This multi-centre study will provide sound, generalizable data on the effectiveness of a POC-based algorithm to determine to what extent this guideline can reduce blood product transfusions. Investigators will study outcomes in 7000 patients undergoing heart surgery at 10 participating hospitals. The proposed trial addresses several important research and clinical issues and has the potential to markedly improve the transfusion management and surgical care in general of cardiac surgery patients.
The intervention will be a novel POC-based algorithm that has been shown in a pilot study by us to be associated with a substantial reduction in blood product transfusions. The algorithm will employ viscoelastic and aggregometric POC-tests and an objective measure of blood loss. The primary outcome will be avoidance of red blood cell transfusion during hospitalization. The study has a 90% power to detect a 12% increase in avoidance rate. Secondary outcomes will include avoidance of red blood cell use and other blood products (plasma, platelets, and cryoprecipitate), units of blood products transfused, and adverse clinical outcomes related to transfusion (acute kidney injury, infections, and death). Data will also be collected for future health-economics analyses.
Largely due to the limitations of existing evidence, however, such algorithms are rarely used in clinical practice. The proposed trial will provide sound, generalizable data on the effectiveness of a POC-based algorithm to guide their future use. An integrated blood management algorithm that employs POC coagulation tests will reduce blood product transfusions in cardiac surgery, thereby improving clinical outcomes.
Does an integrated blood transfusion algorithm that employs POC coagulation tests applied across a network of hospitals reduce blood transfusions and associated adverse outcomes in cardiac surgery?
详细描述
Despite major advances in cardiac surgery, coagulopathy continues to carry a heavy burden in cases that require the use of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), occurring frequently and resulting in excessive blood loss, blood product transfusions, and adverse clinical outcomes. Current management of coagulopathy is hampered by the inability of conventional laboratory tests to delineate its etiology in a timely manner, thereby precluding timely and targeted transfusion therapy. With the advent of point-of-care (POC) coagulation tests that can rapidly identify the etiology of coagulopathy, it may now be possible to reduce the burden of coagulopathy and thereby reduce transfusions and adverse outcomes. Several single-centre studies (including one by the investigator group) have found that the use of POC-based algorithms in cardiac surgery can markedly reduce blood product transfusions and by that means reduce morbidities and mortality.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Diagnostic
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —(Adult, Older Adult)
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- 未提供
排除标准
- •Hospitals not meeting inclusion.
结局指标
主要结局
Point Of Care (POC) Transfusion Algorithm Cardiac Study
时间窗: 2.5 years
The primary outcome measure will be the proportion of patients who receive any allogeneic red blood cell (RBC) transfusion from admission before surgery to end of follow-up.
次要结局
- Kidney injury(48 hours)
- Transfusion(7 days)
- Blood loss(24 hours)
- Ventilation and hospital stay(24 hours to 7 days)
- Post operative complications(7 days)
研究者
Jo Carroll
Research Manager
University Health Network, Toronto
