Restrictive Versus Liberal Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Patients of Cirrhosis With Septic Shock: An Open Label Randomized Controlled Trial

Consecutive cirrhotics who present to emergency department of ILBS with documented or suspected sepsis induced hypotension with Hb <8 gm/dl will be randomly assigned to restrictive (Target Hb 7-8 gm/dl) to liberal (Target Hb 10-11 gm/dl) group in a 1:1 proportion At admission, all patients will undergo physical examination and baseline investigations to identify site of sepsis. Enrolled patients will be given PRBC-transfusion (Not more than two units of PRBC/day) when they reach their assigned trigger value (Hb 7-8 g/dl or 10-11 g/dl ) during the entire ICU stay. All other interventions will be at the discretion of clinicians.