Nadine Shehata, Richard Whitlock, Dean A Fergusson, Kevin E Thorpe, Charlie MacAdams, Hilary P Grocott, Fraser Rubens, Stephen Fremes, Francois Lellouche, Sean Bagshaw, Alistair Royse, Peter M Rosseel, Greg Hare, Etienne De Medicis, Christopher Hudson, Emilie Belley-Cote, Daniel Bainbridge, Blaine Kent, Andrew Shaw, Kelly Byrne, Summer Syed, Colin F Royse, Shay McGuiness, Judith Hall, C David Mazer
OBJECTIVES: To determine if a restrictive transfusion threshold is noninferior to a higher threshold as measured by a composite outcome of mortality and serious morbidity. DESIGN: Transfusion Requirements in Cardiac Surgery (TRICS) III was a multicenter, international, open-label randomized controlled trial of two commonly used transfusion strategies in patients having cardiac surgery using a noninferiority trial design (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02042898). SETTING: Eligible patients were randomized prior to surgery in a 1:1 ratio...
February 2018: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia