25 June 2023 (Sunday) - Transfusion Evidence Alert update

 

The nice people at Transfusion Evidence Alert sent their update today. I can’t pretend to have done more than quickly skimmed it as there was so much, but some of it has stuck. Interestingly the phrase “cost effective” appeared several times…

TOP ARTICLES

Cost-effectiveness of cell salvage in trauma blood transfusions.
Beeton, G., et al. (2023). The American Surgeon. [Record in progress].

Systematic review highlights high risk of bias of clinical prediction models for blood transfusion in patients undergoing elective surgery.
Dhiman, P., et al. (2023). Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. [Record in progress]. 

Prehospital tranexamic acid is associated with a dose-dependent decrease in syndecan-1 after trauma: A secondary analysis of a prospective randomized trial.
Gruen, D.S., et al. (2023). The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. [Record in progress].

Convalescent plasma for people with COVID-19: a living systematic review.
Iannizzi, C., et al. (2023). The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Prophylactic epinephrine attenuates severe bleeding in lung transplantation patients undergoing transbronchial lung biopsy: Results of the PROPHET randomized trial.
Kalchiem-Dekel, O., et al. (2023). The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. [Record in progress].

Efficacy of plasmapheresis in neutropenic patients suffering from cytokine storm because of severe COVID-19 infection.
Sadeghi, A., et al. (2023). Blood Research. [Record in progress].

Platelet transfusion before CVC placement in patients with thrombocytopenia.
Van Baarle, F.L.F., et al. (2023). The New England Journal of Medicine.

Cost-effectiveness of thrombopoietin mimetics in patients with thrombocytopenia: a systematic review.
Van Remoortel, H., et al. (2023). PharmacoEconomics. [Record in progress].

Efficacy of eltrombopag with immunosuppressive therapy versus immunosuppressive therapy alone on severe aplastic anaemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Zhang, S., et al. (2023). Clinical Drug Investigation.

ARTICLE OF THE MONTH Randomized trial of early detection and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage. Gallos, I., et al. (2023). The New England Journal of Medicine. [Record in progress]. PICO Summary available +++++