Table 2.

Infant’s clinical characteristics within 48 h of PRBC transfusions

Characteristic	Number of transfusions (n = 42)
Diet
Human milk/human milk+fortifier	35 (83%)
Formula only	6 (14%)
Human milk and formula	1 (2%)
Antibiotics within 48 h	25 (60%)
Bacteremia within 48 h	8 (19%)
Hematocrit before tranfusion (%)	28 ± 4
Feeding intolerance	4 (9.5%)
Necrotizing enterocolitis stage IIb or greater	2 (4.8%)
Age (days)	27 ± 16
Corrected gestational age (weeks)	31 ± 3

Abbreviation: PRBC, packed red blood cells. Data are reported in n(%) or as mean ± s.d.