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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Surg. 2013 Feb;148(2):170–175. doi: 10.1001/jamasurgery.2013.414

Table 3.

Primary and secondary outcome data

TP-ED
(n=164)
TP-BB (n=130) p-value
Median time to first unit of RBC, min (IQR) 18 (11, 73) 20 (10, 72) 0.854
Median time to first unit of plasma, min (IQR) 43 (21, 106) 89 (48, 192) <0.001
Median 24-hour RBC transfusions, U (IQR) 5 (2, 10) 6 (3, 11) 0.128
Median 24-hour plasma transfusion, U (IQR) 6 (3, 11) 7.5 (4, 14) 0.080
Median 24-hour platelet, U (IQR) 12 (6, 18) 12 (6, 18) 0.772
Median 24-hour cryoprecipitate, U (IQR) 0 (0, 0) 0 (0, 0) 0.028
Massive transfusion rate, % 27% 39% 0.045
24-hour mortality, % 9.7% 6.9% 0.387
30-day mortality, % 20.7% 22.3% 0.743
Hemorrhage-related mortality, % 14.7% 27.5% 0.210

TP-ED: thawed plasma in emergency department; TP-BB: thawed plasma in Blood Bank; RBC: red blood cells; IQR: 25th–75th inter-quartile range; min: minutes; U: units