ReviewInternational journal of burns and trauma2017
Mortality outcomes in trauma patients undergoing prehospital red blood cell transfusion: a systematic literature review.
Review in International journal of burns and trauma, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Pre-hospital transfusion of red blood cells. Part 2: A systematic review of treatment effects on outcomes.Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) · 2020Pooled it
- Hemostatic resuscitation in patients with trauma-induced coagulopathy: a narrative review.Acute and critical care · 2026Article
- Has the pendulum swung too far? Discretionary single-unit red blood cell transfusion in trauma is associated with infection, thromboembolic events, and mortality.Transfusion · 2025Article
- Patients at Risk for Transfusion-A Six-Year Multicentre Analysis of More Than 320,000 Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Missions.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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- Predictive clinical utility of pre-hospital point of care lactate for transfusion of blood product in patients with suspected traumatic haemorrhage: derivation of a decision-support tool.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2022Article
- Wearable Sensors Incorporating Compensatory Reserve Measurement for Advancing Physiological Monitoring in Critically Injured Trauma Patients.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Pre-hospital blood transfusion - an ESA survey of European practice.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2020Article
- Prehospital and Emergency Care in Adult Patients with Acute Traumatic Brain Injury.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Mortality of civilian patients with suspected traumatic haemorrhage receiving pre-hospital transfusion of packed red blood cells compared to pre-hospital crystalloid.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2018Observational
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Abstract
The value of prehospital red blood cell (RBC) transfusion for trauma patients is controversial. The purposes of this literature review were to determine the mortality rate of trauma patients with hemodynamic instability and the benefit of prehospital RBC transfusion. A 30-year systematic literature review was performed in 2016. Eligible studies were combined for meta-analysis when tests for heterogeneity were insignificant. The synthesized mortality was 35.6% for systolic blood pressure ≤ 90 mmHg; 51.1% for ≤ 80 mmHg; and 63.9% for ≤ 70 mmHg. For patients with either hypotension or emergency trauma center transfused RBCs, the synthesized Injury Severity Score (ISS) was 27.0 and mortality was 36.2%; the ISS and mortality correlation was r = 0.766 (
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