Blood Transfusion Clinical Trial
Official title:
Transfusion Strategies in Acute Brain Injured Patients. A Prospective Multicenter Randomized Study.
To compare a "liberal" and a "restrictive" strategy to administer blood transfusions in critically ill patients with a primary brain injury.
Although blood transfusions can be lifesaving in severe hemorrhage, they can also have potential complications. As anemia has also been associated with poor outcomes in critically ill patients, determining an optimal transfusion trigger is a real challenge for clinicians. This is even more important in patients with acute brain injury who were not specifically evaluated in previous large randomized clinical trials dealing with the optimal transfusion threshold. Neurological patients may be particularly sensitive to anemic brain hypoxia because of the exhausted cerebrovascular reserve, which adjusts cerebral blood flow to tissue oxygen demand. This prospective, multicenter, randomized, pragmatic trial will compare two different strategies for red blood cell transfusion in patients with acute brain injury: a "liberal" strategy in which the aim is to maintain hemoglobin (Hb) concentrations greater than 9 g/dL and a "restrictive" approach in which the aim is to maintain Hb concentrations greater than 7 g/dL. The target population is patients suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI), subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) or intracranial hemorrhage (ICH). The primary outcome is neurological outcome, evaluated using the extended Glasgow Outcome Scale (eGOS), at 180 days after the initial injury. Secondary outcomes include, amongst others, 28-day survival, intensive care unit (ICU) and hospital lengths of stay, the occurrence of extra-cerebral organ dysfunction/failure and the development of any infection or thromboembolic events (venous or arterial). The estimated sample size is 794 patients to demonstrate a reduction in the primary outcome (i.e. unfavorable neurological outcome) from 50% to 30% between groups (397 patients in each arm). The study will be initiated in September 2016 in several European ICUs and is expected at least 6 years. The results of this trial will help to improve blood product and transfusion use in this specific patient population and will provide additional data in some sub-groups of patients at high-risk of brain ischemia, such as those with intracranial hypertension or cerebral vasospasm. ;
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