Conservative Versus Liberal Red Cell Transfusion in Acute Myocardial Infarction (the CRIT Randomized Pilot Study)
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Howard A. Cooper; Julio A. Panza; Kirsten Alcorn; Maria P. Rumsey; Marcus McKenzie; Sunil V. Rao; Michael D. Greenberg
- Source
- The American Journal of Cardiology. 108:1108-1111
- Subject
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Population
Myocardial Infarction
Pilot Projects
Hematocrit
law.invention
Hemoglobins
Randomized controlled trial
law
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
Prospective Studies
Myocardial infarction
Prospective cohort study
Intensive care medicine
education
Survival rate
Aged
education.field_of_study
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Length of Stay
medicine.disease
United States
Survival Rate
Clinical trial
Treatment Outcome
Heart failure
Cardiology
Female
Erythrocyte Transfusion
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Follow-Up Studies
- Language
- ISSN
- 0002-9149
Red blood cell transfusion is common in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, observational data suggest that this practice may be associated with worse clinical outcomes and data from clinical trials are lacking in this population. We conducted a prospective multicenter randomized pilot trial in which 45 patients with AMI and a hematocrit level ≤30% were randomized to a liberal (transfuse when hematocrit