The haematology for anaesthetics and intensive care webinar by Professor Simon Stanworth, Dr Claire Davies, and Dr Akshay Shah ran on Friday 12th June 2020. For easy viewing we have split the session into shorter parts as follows, and the key papers mentioned are linked below.
Haematology 1: Anaemia and transfusion in critical care
Haematology 2: Massive transfusion
Haematology 3: VTE in critical care
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Useful links
ESICM transfusion guidelines for critical care
TRICC trial paper for restrictive transfusion, NEJM 1999
SHOT website for serious hazards of transfusion (with audit reports)
PROPPR trial paper for transfusion ratios, JAMA 2015
A guide to transfusion medicine: ‘Bloody easy v4’
National comparative blood transfusion audit
Cochrane systematic review on red cell transfusion including transfusion thresholds 2016
Patient blood management – recommendations from the 2018 Frankfurt Consensus conference
Systematic review of safety and efficacy of IV iron therapy BMJ 2013
VTE in critically ill patients McLeod et al 2011
VTE prophylaxis in critical care (PROTECT observational study) 2005
LMWH vs UFH in critically ill patients (PROTECT trial) 2011
Omission of thromboprophylaxis for >24h after ICU admission results in higher mortality (Kwok et al, Chest 2011)
TEDS vs Flowtrons (GCS vs IPCs) in intensive care (Arabi et al, Chest 2013)
PREPIC-1 study for IVC filters
PREPIC-2 study for IVC filters
Risk of recurrence of provoked VTE (including ICU related VTE) (Iorio, Archives of Internal medicine, 2010)
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