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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Transfusion. 2023 Apr 26;63(Suppl 3):S10–S17. doi: 10.1111/trf.17340

Table 2.

Blood product administration and unadjusted mortality compared between cryoprecipitate group and no cryoprecipitate group.

No Cryoprecipitate
(n=297)
Cryoprecipitate
(n=152)
p value

Blood products and adjuncts

Duration of massive transfusion event (n=449) 2.7 (1.0–5.0) 4.8 (3.0–7.7) <0.001

Total volume mL/kg (n=449) 41 (20–77) 120 (67–236) <0.001

Red blood cell volume mL/kg (n=449) 24 (12–46) 56 (28–121) <0.001

Plasma volume mL/kg (n=449) 12 (0–24) 32 (16–67) <0.001

Platelet volume mL/kg (n=449) 3 (0–11) 21 (10–42) <0.001

Cryoprecipitate volume mL/kg (n=449) - 4 (2–9) -

Plasma deficit (n=449) 10 (0–24) 19 (2–59) <0.001

Platelet deficit (n=449) 18 (8–35) 31 (10–83) <0.001

Plasma:Red blood cell ratio (n=449) 0.5 (0–0.85) 0.6 (0.36–0.91) 0.002

Platelet:Red blood cell ratio (n=423) 0.13 (0–0.32) 0.31 (0.18–0.56) <0.001

Antifibrinolytics (yes/no) (n=449) 31 (10) 25 (16) 0.07

Factor VII (yes/no) (n=447) 17 (6) 39 (26) <0.001

Crystalloid volume mL/kg (n=445) 18 (1–50) 14 (1–57) 0.58

Outcome

Mortality – 6 hours (n=69) 54/297 (18) 15/152 (10) 0.03
Death due to bleeding 41/69 (76) 13/15 (87) 0.49
Death during LTH 13/54 (24) 7/15 (46) 0.11

Mortality – 24 hours (n=99) 71/297 (24) 28/152 (18) 0.23

Mortality – 28 days (n=168) 104/297 (35) 64/152 (43) 0.12

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome 52 (17) 29 (26) 0.05

Sepsis 31 (10) 13 (9) 0.62

Acute Kidney Injury 38 (13) 45 (30) <0.001
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The PRISM III score includes: systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, Pa02/Fi02, PaC02, Glasgow Coma Scale score, pupillary reaction, prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time, total bilirubin, potassium, calcium, glucose, and bicarbonate.

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numeric values are median(IQR) when continuous and n (%) when discrete