Study
Setting
No. of patients
Blood products
End points
Results (%)
p
van de Watering [5]
Cardiac surgery
914
BCD-RBC vs. LR (pre-storage) vs. LR (poststorage)
60-day mortality
7.8 vs. 3.6 vs. 3.3
0.015
Bilgin [6]
Cardiac surgery
474
BCD-RBC vs. LR (pre-storage)
Hospital mortality
10.1 vs. 5.5
0.05
90-day mortality
12.7 vs. 8.4
n.s.
Connery [7]
Cardiac surgery
98
BCD-RBC vs. LR
30-day mortality
3.2 vs. 2.6
n.s.
Wallis [8]
Cardiac surgery
597
BCD or plasma-reduced RBC vs. WBC-filtered
90-day mortality
2.9 vs. 2.5 vs. 0.5
n.s.
Bracey [7]
Cardiac surgery
443
BCD-RBC vs. LR (pre-storage)
Hospital mortality
7.5 vs. 5.9
n.s.
Boshkov [10]
Cardiac surgery
1,227
BCD-RBC vs. LR
60-day mortality
9.7 vs. 4.9
Jensen [13]
Colorectal surgery
586
BCD-RBC vs. LR (pre-storage)
Hospital mortality
2.8 vs. 3.4
n.s.
Titlestad [15]
Colorectal surgery
279
BCD-RBC vs. LR (pre-storage)
30-day mortality
8.5 vs. 3.6
n.s.
Skamberg [15]
Colorectal cancer surgery
642
BCD-RBC vs. LR
99-month mortality
49.7 vs. 52.5
n.s.
Dzik [16]
Medical/major surgery
2,780
RBC vs. LR (pre-storage)
Hospital mortality
8.5 vs. 9.0
n.s.
Van Hilten [17]
Gastrointestinal and aortic aneurysm surgery
1,051
BCD-RBC vs. LR (pre-storage)
Hospital mortality
8.4 vs. 10.3
n.s.
Nielsen [18]
Burns/trauma
24
BCD-RBC vs. LR (pre-storage)
Hospital mortality
33.3 vs. 16.6
n.s.