Table 2.
Specific Blood Product Transfusion in Biventricular Cardiac Surgeries
| Encounters | Any RBC N (%) |
p-value | Any Plasma N (%) |
p-value | Any Platelet N (%) |
p-value | Any Cryo N (%) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 678 | 503 (74.2) | 577 (85.1) | 509 (75.1) | 324 (47.8) | ||||
| Sex | 0.39 | 0.67b | 0.44 | 0.33b | |||||
| Female | 298 | 227 (76.2) | 254 (85.2) | 222 (74.5) | 148 (49.7) | ||||
| Male | 380 | 276 (72.6) | 323 (85.0) | 287 (75.5) | 176 (46.3) | ||||
| Age (years) | <0.0001b | 0.067b | 0.007 | <0.0001b | |||||
| Birth encountera | 55 | 55 (100.0) | 52 (94.6) | 43 (78.2) | 35 (63.6) | ||||
| <1 | 231 | 197 (85.3) | 199 (86.2) | 183 (79.2) | 139 (60.2) | ||||
| 1 to <6 | 246 | 167 (67.9) | 209 (85.0) | 162 (65.9) | 107 (43.5) | ||||
| 6 to <13 | 90 | 56 (62.2) | 71 (78.9) | 71 (78.9) | 24 (26.7) | ||||
| 13 to <18 | 56 | 28 (50.0) | 46 (82.1) | 50 (89.3) | 19 (33.9) | ||||
| Race | 0.54 | 0.82b | 0.8892 | 0.39b | |||||
| White | 281 | 198 (70.5) | 229 (81.5) | 205 (73.0) | 119 (42.3) | ||||
| Black | 66 | 47 (71.2) | 58 (87.9) | 47 (71.2) | 29 (43.9) | ||||
| Asian | 64 | 52 (81.3) | 58 (90.6) | 48 (75.0) | 33 (51.6) | ||||
| Not specified/Unknown | 267 | 206 (77.2) | 232 (86.9) | 209 (78.3) | 143 (53.6) | ||||
| Ethnicity | 0.60 | 0.70b | 0.6919 | 0.69b | |||||
| Non-Hispanic | 468 | 348 (74.4) | 396 (84.6) | 348 (74.4) | 220 (47.0) | ||||
| Hispanic | 208 | 154 (74.0) | 180 (86.5) | 160 (76.9) | 103 (49.5) |
NOTE: 10 patients on ECMO excluded from this table and 2 patients with unknown ethnicity excluded from this table
RBC-red blood cell transfusion; Platelet-platelet transfusion; Plasma-plasma transfusion; Cryo-cryoprecipitate transfusion;
a
Birth encounter- admitted to hospital on day of birth, exclusive of patient age category <1 year.
b
Not adjusted for potential correlation in repeated encounters due to small cell sizes