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According to a new report by experts from the Connecticut Children's Medical Center, in Hartford, Connecticut, severe-trauma patients who receive blood transfusions containing red blood cells older than one month have a twice as large chance of dying than similar patients who receive fresh blood. In keeping consistent with previous reports on cardiac-surgery patients, the researchers followed the risk up to months after the original transfusion took place, e! Science News reports. In charge of the investigation were CCMC pediatric intensivists Philip Spinella and Christopher Carroll, who published their work in the latest issue of BioMed Central's open-access scientific journal Critical Care. Their research followed up 202 severe-trauma patients from the Hartford Hospital, who had received five or more units of red blood cells during the course of their treatment. Their results were fairly straightforward. Even one unit of old, red blood cells doubled the risk of people d!
eveloping deep vein thrombosis, or dying on account of multiple-organ failure. The researchers separated the patients into two groups, and each of the groups received the same amount of RBC blood. This was done in order to eliminate criticism that had been received by other, similar studies. Critics argued that it was the amount ...
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