Comprehensive perioperative blood management in patients undergoing elective bypass cardiac surgery: Benefit effect of health care education and systematic correction of iron deficiency and anemia on red blood cell transfusion.

Study Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of a two-step patient blood management (PBM) program in red blood cell (RBC) transfusion requirements among patients undergoing elective cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) surgery.

Design: Prospective, non-randomized, two-step protocol design.

Setting: Cardiac surgery department of Clinique Pasteur, Toulouse, France.

Comparable clinical course between coagulase-negative staphylococcal and Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis.

Purpose: Staphylococcus aureus (SA) is involved in almost one-third of endocarditis events (known as E-SA) and is frequently associated with unfavorable outcomes compared to infectious endocarditis (IE) caused by other pathogens including coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS). The aim of this study was to compare the morbidity and mortality of patients with E-SA and endocarditis due to CNS (known as E-CNS).

Methods: A monocentric retrospective cohort analysis was conducted including all patients admitted with IE from January 2010 to December 2017.

Preoperative plasma fibrinogen level and transfusion in cardiac surgery: a biphasic correlation.

Coagulopathic bleeding is a serious complication of cardiac surgery. A very low preoperative plasma fibrinogen level (PFL) has been previously described as a risk factor for red blood cell (RBC) transfusion in the perioperative setting. Nevertheless, contradictory results have been published concerning preoperative fibrinogen infusion to decrease RBC transfusion.

Patient blood management in elective bypass cardiac surgery: A 2-step single-centre interventional trial to analyse the impact of an educational programme and erythropoiesis stimulation on red blood cell transfusion.

Unlabelled: Anaemia and iron deficiency are frequent in patients scheduled for cardiac surgery. Perioperative patient blood management (PBM) is widely recommended in current practice guidelines. The aim of this protocol is to analyse the effect of a global perioperative PBM programme on the red blood cell (RBC) transfusion ratio, morbidities and rehabilitation score in elective cardiac surgery.