Abstract:BackgroundCardiac surgery has an estimated 20% of the total blood transfusions. Of those, 11% were utilized in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with documented wide variability in transfusion rate (7.8% to 92.8%). To address the issue of unnecessary transfusions within CABG population, we developed the model to predict the patients at low risk of bleeding who should not be transfused. Herein we present our “SHOULD-NOT-BLEED-SCORE” application developed for Windows® software platform a… Show more
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