Investigating the impact of red blood cell storage time on postoperative infections in clean-contaminated surgery, a cohort study with 4,046 patients revealed no significant association between prolonged storage time and increased infection risk. Analyzing 11,604 transfusion episodes, even after adjusting for 17 confounders, no notable correlation was found in either episode-level or patient-level analysis. This suggests that, within the studied parameters, storage time of transfused red blood cells does not significantly contribute to higher infection risks post-surgery.
Journal Article by Xu X, Zhang Y (…) Huang Y et 3 al. in Ann Surg
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