Table 4.
PCC group n = 29 |
FFP group n = 26 |
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Total number of adverse events | 75 | 62 |
Patients with adverse events | 22 (76%) | 19 (73%) |
Total number of serious adverse events | 5 | 13 |
Patients with serious adverse events | 4 (14%) | 9 (35%) |
Types of serious adverse events* | ||
Resulting in death | 1 | 1 |
Heart failure | 1 | |
Heart valve incompetence | 1 | |
Life‐threatening | 2 | 2 |
Heart failure † | 1 | |
Mesenteric artery thrombosis | 1 | |
Multiple organ failure | 1 | |
Pulseless electrical activity † | 1 | |
Re‐hospitalisation or prolonged hospitalisation | 1 | 9 |
Abdominal pain ‡ | 1 | |
Chest pain ‡ | 1 | |
Malaise ‡ | 1 | |
Heart failure | 1 | |
Hypotension | 1 | |
Haemothorax § | 1 | |
Pleuritic pain | 1 | |
Raised INR | 1 | |
Stroke § | 2 | |
Persistent or significant disability | 1 | 1 |
Spinal cord ischaemia | 1 | |
Stroke | 1 |
PCC, prothrombin complex concentrate; FFP, fresh frozen plasma; INR, international normalised ratio.
Thromboembolic events are classified as serious adverse effects, there were no venous thromboses in either arm.
Two life‐threatening serious adverse events were for one patient in the FFP arm.
Three hospital re‐admissions were from the same patient in the FFP arm.
Haemothorax resulted in re‐admission, and a stroke during that admission, led to prolonged hospitalisation for one patient.