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[Analysis on Factors Influencing Posttransfusion Effectiveness in Plasma Transfusion of 4423 Cases-Times]
Lin-Feng Chen1, Chun-Rong Tan1, Jian-Mei Zhuang1
1Department of Transfusion, Beijing Shijitan Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University;Beijing 100853, China.
Objective:
To investigate the related factors influencing plasma transfusion efficacy so as to improve the plasma transfusion efficiency.
Methods:
According to the clinical symptoms and the laboratorial results, the patients were divided into transfusion efficient and inefficient groups. A total of13090.8 units of plasma were transfused to 4423 patients. The clinical symptoms and the hemorrhage related index per- and pro-transfusion, plasma components sorts, storage time, and the dose of plasma (kg/ml) transfusion were analyzed.
Results:
The largest transfusion volume of plasma were in intensive care unit (ICU) accounted for 30.36%, the largest blood plasma per patient transfusion was in cardiac surgery (3.96 U). The analysis of transfusion efficiency showed that in terms of patient age, there were difference in transfusion efficiency among the patients with different ages (P<0.001). The effective transfusion rate in the group of age <18 was 53%, which was higher than that in group of age 18-60(41%) and group of age >60 (30%); in terms of sex, the effective transfusion rate in female group was higher than that in male group (42% vs 37%) (P<0.001); in terms of transfusion plasma volume/body weight, there were differences in transfusion efficiency (P>0.05). The multi-factor logistic regression analysis showed that there was no significant correlation among the plasma sorts, storage time of the plasma pre-transfusion and transfusion efficiency(P>0.05). The analysis of the non-hemolytic fever reaction caused by plasma transfusion revealed that there was no statistical difference between the plasma and the leukocyte-depleted plasma groups (P>0.05).
Conclusion:
The plasma transfusion effectiveness relates with age and sex, but not relates with the transfusion plasma voume/body weight, plasma sorts, and the duration of storage.
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