Table 3.

comparison of different median times for transfusion management in children with malaria anemia (N=315) according to certain emergency criteria at the regional hospital in Koudougou, Burkina Faso, 2016

	Actual time to transfusion (min)		Blood ordering delivery time (min)		Blood issue time (min)		In-service blood con-servation time (min)		Transfusion duration (min)
	Median [IQR]	p-value	Median [IQR]	p-value	Median [IQR]	p-value	Median [IQR]	p-value	Median [IQR]	p-value
Overall	65 [45-100]	Na	20 [11-42]	na	14 [10-20]	na	25 [15-45]	na	73.8 [47.5-110]	na
Degree of emergency
LTE	63 [45-90]	0.471	20 [11-37]	0.196	15 [10-20]	0.604	22 [14-38]	0.004	72.8 [49-105]	0.043
RE	75 [53-105]		20.5 [13-48]		13 [10-20]		30 [18-50]		76 [46-115]
Importance of anemiaϷ
< 40 g/L	64 [44-100]	0.310	19.2 [11-40]	0.127	12.5 [10-20]	0.576	24 [15- 44]	0.478	80 [50.5-111]	0.144
40 - 60 g/L	72 [53-100]		25 [14-45]		15 [10-20]		25 [15-45]		72 [46-110]
>60 g/L	61.5 [45-90]		20 [5-38]		13 [9-20]		20 [15- 38.5]		67.5 [42.5-85]
Non-tolerated anemia
Yes	60 [45-81.5]	0.005	20 [13-35.5]	0.279	14 [10-20]	0.857	20 [14-31]	0.000	70 [45-100]	0.051
No	75 [50-110]		20 [1150]		13 [10-20]		30 [18- 50]		80 [51-110]

LTE = life-threatening emergency; RE = relative emergency; IQR = inter-quartile range; min = minute; g = gramm; L = liter; na = non applicable; Ϸ: Kruskal-Wallis test. In other cases, Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test was used