What Laboratory Tests and Physiologic Triggers Should Guide the Decision to Administer a Platelet or Plasma Transfusion in Critically Ill Children and What Product Attributes Are Optimal to Guide Specific Product Selection? From the Transfusion and Anemia EXpertise Initiative–Control/Avoidance of Bleeding
Delaney M, Karam O, Lieberman L, Steffen K, Muszynski JA, Goel R, Bateman ST, Parker RI, Nellis ME, Remy KE, Network A. What Laboratory Tests and Physiologic Triggers Should Guide the Decision to Administer a Platelet or Plasma Transfusion in Critically Ill Children and What Product Attributes Are Optimal to Guide Specific Product Selection? From the Transfusion and Anemia EXpertise Initiative–Control/Avoidance of Bleeding. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2022, 23: e1-e13. PMID: 34989701, PMCID: PMC8769352, DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000002854.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAnemia EXpertise Initiative-Control/AvoidanceIll pediatric patientsIll childrenPlasma transfusionPediatric patientsPlatelet transfusionsConsensus statementSystematic reviewLos Angeles Appropriateness MethodPhysiologic triggerExpert-based statementsCritically Ill ChildrenDevelopment/UniversityExpert consensus statementCochrane Library databasesBleeding expertsRecommendations AssessmentTransfusion managementAppropriateness MethodBlood productsLaboratory testingTransfusionLibrary databasesConsensus conferenceExpert consensus