What is it about?
We studied how many blood transfusions burn patients get during their hospital treatment and correlated it to survival and injury characteristics. We used registry data, from the Optimal Use of Blood registry, developed in co-operation between 10 major hospital districts and the Finnish Red Cross Blood Service. We found that 34% of 558 burn patients had transfusions, mostly leukoreduced red blood cells, altogether 2422 units. Transfused patients were significantly older, experienced fire-/flame-related accidents and burns to multiple locations and they died more often in hospital compared with patients who had no blood transfusions.
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Why is it important?
There is an ongoing debate about the amount of blood transfusions in patients with different diagnosis and different severity of diseases. In this article we added the literature with a large number of burn patients.
Perspectives
In a small country like Finland, it is difficult to do prospective studies due to small number of patients, therefore using registry data was reasonable to answer this question.
Dr Virve Koljonen
Helsingin Yliopisto
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This page is a summary of: The Use of Blood Products in Adult Patients with Burns, Scandinavian Journal of Surgery, June 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1457496915622127.
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