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Erschienen in: Pediatric Surgery International 7/2017

25.05.2017 | Original Article

Prehospital blood transfusions in pediatric trauma and nontrauma patients: a single-center review of safety and outcomes

verfasst von: Aodhnait S. Fahy, Cornelius A. Thiels, Stephanie F. Polites, Maile Parker, Michael B. Ishitani, Christopher R. Moir, Kathleen Berns, James R. Stubbs, Donald H. Jenkins, Scott P. Zietlow, Martin D. Zielinski

Erschienen in: Pediatric Surgery International | Ausgabe 7/2017

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Abstract

Purpose

Prehospital transfusions are a novel yet increasingly accepted intervention in the adult population as part of remote damage control resuscitation, but prehospital transfusions remain controversial in children. Our purpose was to review our pediatric prehospital transfusion experience over 12 years to describe the safety of prehospital transfusion in appropriately triaged trauma and nontrauma patients.

Methods

Children (<18 years) transfused with packed red blood cells (pRBC) or plasma during transport to a single regional academic medical center between 2002 and 2014 were identified. Admission details, in-hospital clinical course, and outcomes were analyzed.

Results

28 children were transfused during transport; median age was 8.9 ± 7 years and 15 patients were male (54%). Most patients required at least one additional unit of blood products during their hospitalization (79%), and/or required operative intervention (53%), endoscopy (7%), or died during their hospitalization (14%). Comparison of trauma patients (n = 16) and nontrauma patients (n = 12) revealed that nontrauma patients were younger, more anemic, more coagulopathy on admission, and required more ongoing transfusion in the hospital. Trauma patients were more likely to need operative intervention. No patient had a transfusion reaction.

Conclusion

Remote damage control prehospital transfusions of blood products were safe in this small group of appropriately triaged pediatric patients. Further studies are needed to determine if outcomes are improved and to devise a rigorous protocol for this prehospital intervention for critically ill pediatric patients.
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Metadaten
Titel
Prehospital blood transfusions in pediatric trauma and nontrauma patients: a single-center review of safety and outcomes
verfasst von
Aodhnait S. Fahy
Cornelius A. Thiels
Stephanie F. Polites
Maile Parker
Michael B. Ishitani
Christopher R. Moir
Kathleen Berns
James R. Stubbs
Donald H. Jenkins
Scott P. Zietlow
Martin D. Zielinski
Publikationsdatum
25.05.2017
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Pediatric Surgery International / Ausgabe 7/2017
Print ISSN: 0179-0358
Elektronische ISSN: 1437-9813
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00383-017-4092-5

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