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Blood Transfusion and Infection After Cardiac Surgery

Keith A. Horvath, +19 more
- 01 Jun 2013 - 
- Vol. 95, Iss: 6, pp 2194-2201
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Greater attention to management practices that limit RBC use, including cell salvage, small priming volumes, vacuum-assisted venous return with rapid autologous priming, and ultrafiltration, and preoperative and intraoperative measures to elevate hematocrit could potentially reduce occurrence of major postoperative infections.
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This article is published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.The article was published on 2013-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 242 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Blood transfusion & Platelet transfusion.

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Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update

Deverick J. Anderson, +10 more
- 01 Jun 2014 - 
TL;DR: This document updates “Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals,” published in 2008, with practical recommendations in a concise format designed to assist acute care hospitals in implementing and prioritizing their surgical site infection prevention efforts.
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Health Care–Associated Infection After Red Blood Cell Transfusion: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Jeffrey M. Rohde, +7 more
- 02 Apr 2014 - 
TL;DR: Among hospitalized patients, a restrictive RBC transfusion strategy was associated with a reduced risk of health care-associated infection compared with a liberal transfusions strategy, suggesting that implementing restrictive strategies may have the potential to lower the incidence of health Care- associated infection.
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Universal definition of perioperative bleeding in adult cardiac surgery.

Cornelius M. Dyke, +11 more
- 01 May 2014 - 
TL;DR: The proposed universal definition for perioperative bleeding (UDPB) in adult cardiac surgery provides a precise classification of bleeding that is useful in everyday practice as well as in clinical research.
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Improved outcomes and reduced costs associated with a health-system-wide patient blood management program: a retrospective observational study in four major adult tertiary-care hospitals.

Michael F. Leahy, +11 more
- 01 Jun 2017 - 
TL;DR: Patient blood management programs are associated with improved patient outcomes, reduced transfusions and costs, and a comprehensive health‐system–wide PBM program was initiated in 2008.
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Allogeneic Blood Transfusion Increases the Risk of Postoperative Bacterial Infection: A Meta-Analysis: [2002][A-423]

Karl E. Griffith, +4 more
- 01 Sep 2002 - 
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that allogeneic blood transfusion is a greater risk factor in the traumatically injured patient when compared with the elective surgical patient for the development of postoperative bacterial infection.
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CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of health care-associated infection and criteria for specific types of infections in the acute care setting.

Teresa C. Horan, +2 more
- 01 Jun 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the NHSN criteria for all healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are presented, including those for the "Big Four" (surgical site infection [SSI], pneumonia [PNEU], bloodstream infection [BSI] and urinary tract infection [UTI]).
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CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of health care-associated infection and criteria for specific types of infections in the acute care setting.

Horan, +2 more
- 01 Jan 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the NHSN criteria for all healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are presented, including those for the "Big Four" (surgical site infection [SSI], pneumonia [PNEU], bloodstream infection [BSI] and urinary tract infection [UTI]).
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Duration of red-cell storage and complications after cardiac surgery

Colleen G. Koch, +6 more
- 20 Mar 2008 - 
TL;DR: In patients undergoing cardiac surgery, transfusion of red cells that had been stored for more than 2 weeks was associated with a significantly increased risk of postoperative complications as well as reduced short-term and long-term survival.
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Increased Mortality, Postoperative Morbidity, and Cost After Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Patients Having Cardiac Surgery

Gavin J. Murphy, +5 more
- 27 Nov 2007 - 
TL;DR: Red blood cell transfusion in patients having cardiac surgery is strongly associated with both infection and ischemic postoperative morbidity, hospital stay, increased early and late mortality, and hospital costs.
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2011 Update to The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Blood Conservation Clinical Practice Guidelines

Victor A. Ferraris, +18 more
- 01 Mar 2011 - 
TL;DR: Much has changed since the previously published 2007 STS blood management guidelines and this document contains new and revised recommendations.
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Increased Mortality, Postoperative Morbidity, and Cost After Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Patients Having Cardiac Surgery

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