Red Cell Storage Duration and Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery



Status:Completed
Conditions:Cardiology
Therapuetic Areas:Cardiology / Vascular Diseases
Healthy:No
Age Range:18 - Any
Updated:3/13/2019
Start Date:April 2007
End Date:January 16, 2019

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Trial Summary
Trial Overview
Inclusion Criteria
The purpose of this study is to determine whether length of storage of RBC is related to
postoperative morbid outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

Subjects undergoing cardiac surgery will be randomized into one of two groups. Group A will
receive transfused blood that has storage duration less than 14 days. Group B will receive
transfused blood with a storage duration of more than 20 days.

Inclusion Criteria:

- All primary and reoperative adult cardiac surgical patients undergoing cardiopulmonary
bypass for coronary artery bypass grafting, coronary artery bypass grafting with a
valve procedure, isolated valve procedures, ascending aortic aneurysm or dissection
repair alone or combined with CABG and valve procedures

Exclusion Criteria:

- Age less than 18 years

- Descending thoracic aortic aneurysm repairs

- Left or right ventricular assist devices

- Those unable to receive blood for religious reasons
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Cleveland Clinic
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216.444.2200
Principal Investigator: Colleen G Koch, MD MS
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