Assessing the effectiveness of whole blood-derived platelets stored as a pool: a randomized block noninferiority trial
| Autor: | Richard J. Cook, Christopher Sigouin, Rebecca Barty, E.J. Nelson, Morris A. Blajchman, Nancy M. Heddle, D.M. Boye, John G. Kelton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Blood Platelets Score test medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Immunology Platelet Transfusion law.invention Randomized controlled trial law Internal medicine medicine Humans Immunology and Allergy Platelet Aged Whole blood Platelet Count business.industry Hematology Middle Aged Thrombocytopenia Confidence interval Surgery Clinical trial Platelet transfusion Blood Preservation Relative risk business |
| Zdroj: | Transfusion. 45:896-903 |
| ISSN: | 1537-2995 0041-1132 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2005.04233.x |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND: Prestorage pooling of whole blood–derived platelets (PLTs) would simplify bacterial detection. This study evaluated the in vivo effect of the prestorage pooling of PLTs stored for up to 5 days, by assessing the corrected count increment (CCI) 18 to 24 hours after transfusion of the product. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: A randomized block noninferiority design was used. Eligible patients had chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia and were considered likely to need at least six PLT transfusions. For every block of two transfusion events, one consisted of PLTs stored individually and then pooled before transfusion, and the other was a product pooled before storage. The primary outcome was categorized as a successful (>4.5) or unsuccessful (≤4.5) 18- to 24-hour posttransfusion CCI analyzed with a matched pair score test. A mixed-effect linear model estimated the mean difference in CCI between the two types of storage. RESULTS: Twenty-three eligible patients received a total of 189 PLT transfusions. The median number of PLT transfusions was 7 (range, 0-27). Eighty-five complete transfusion pairs were used in the primary analysis. The proportions of transfusions leading to a CCI of greater than 4.5 was identical for both routine and PLTs pooled before storage (45/85 = 52.9%; relative risk, 1.00; lower limit of the one-sided 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.83). The estimate of the mean difference in CCI between pooled and routine storage (pooled − routine) was −0.45 (95% CI, −2.23 to 1.33; p = 0.63). CONCLUSION: These results provide evidence that storage of PLTs as a pool for up to 5 days results in posttransfusion CCIs that are not inferior to PLTs stored individually. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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