| Methods |
RCT (Iran) |
| Participants |
Patients > 18 years of age with > 20% body surface thermal burns |
| Interventions |
Intervention: blood transfusion when patient's blood haemoglobin is below 8 mg [sic]/dL
Control group: blood transfusion when patient's blood haemoglobin is below 10 mg [sic]/dL |
| Outcomes |
Total number of transfused blood bags, mortality during hospitalisation, inpatient morbidity (including wound infection; positive blood culture; sepsis; cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, and compartment syndrome); total episodes of infection (each infection); duration of time in hospital |
| Notes |
Trial registration: IRCT20190209042660N1
Not prospectively registered. Trial began recruitment in 2018. Ethics approval reported as 2019. Trial registered 2020 |
