Open AccessOdds of Transfusion for Older Adults Compared to Younger Adults Undergoing Surgery
Author(s) -
Charles H. Brown,
William Savage,
Courtney G. Masear,
Jeremy Walston,
Jing Tian,
Elizabeth Colantuoni,
Charles W. Hogue,
Steven M. Frank
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0000000000000033
Subject(s) - medicine , odds , odds ratio , surgery , blood transfusion , logistic regression
Recent randomized controlled trials have shown no benefit for transfusion to a hemoglobin >10 g/dL compared with lower hemoglobin thresholds in the perioperative period, even among older adults. Nevertheless, physicians may choose to transfuse older adults more liberally than younger adults. It is unclear whether older patients have higher odds than younger patients of being transfused in the perioperative period. Our objective in this study was to determine whether the odds of transfusion are higher in older patients than in younger patients in the perioperative period.