Decreased Consumption of Blood Components During Cardiac Surgery Procedures: Causes and Effects.

Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

Status: Completed

Conditions: Blood Transfusion; Blood Safety

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02513966

s58228

Details and patient eligibility

About

There is a decrease in the amount of blood components used during cardiac surgery in the last four years. As the hemovigilance team of the investigators' Hospital the investigators want to find out the causes and effects of this decrease.

Enrollment: 7,835 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patient underwent cardiac surgery between 2010 and 2014 in UZ Leuven

Exclusion criteria

• patient without cardiac surgery