Point-of-care haemostasis monitoring during liver transplantation reduces transfusion requirements and improves patient outcome. 2015

Antonio Leon-Justel, and Jose A Noval-Padillo, and Ana I Alvarez-Rios, and Patricia Mellado, and Miguel A Gomez-Bravo, and Jose M Álamo, and Manuel Porras, and Lydia Barrero, and Rafael Hinojosa, and Magdalena Carmona, and Angel Vilches-Arenas, and Juan M Guerrero
Laboratory Medicine Department, Huelva University Hospital (Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, Seville University), Spain. Electronic address: antonio.leonj.sspa@juntadeandalucia.es.

BACKGROUND Optimal haemostasis management can improve patient outcomes and reduce blood loss and transfusion volume in orthotopic-liver-transplant (OLT). METHODS We performed a prospective study including 200 consecutive OLTs. The first 100 patients were treated according to the clinic's standards and the next 100 patients were treated using the new point-of-care (POC)-based haemostasis management strategy. Transfusion parameters and other outcomes were compared between groups. RESULTS Transfusion requirements were reduced in the POC group. The median and IQR of red-blood-cells (RBC) transfusion units were reduced from 5 [2-8] to 3 [0-5] (p < 0.001), plasma from 2 [0-4] to 0 (p < 0.001), and platelets from 1 [0-4] to 0 [0-1] (p < 0.001), into the POC group only four patients received tranexamic acid and fibrinogen transfusion rate was 1.13 ± 1.44 g (p = 0.001). We also improved the incidence of transfusion avoidance, 5% vs. 24% (p < 0.001) and reduced the incidence of massive transfusion (defined as the transfusion of more than 10 RBC units), 13% vs. 2% (p = 0.005). We also observed a relationship between RBC transfusion requirements and preoperative haemoglobin, and between platelet transfusion and preoperative fibrinogen levels. The incidence of postoperative complications, such as, reoperation for bleeding, acute-kidney-failure or haemodynamic instability was significantly lower (13.0% vs. 5%, p = 0.048, 17% vs. 2%, p < 0.001, and 29% vs. 16%, p = 0.028). Overall, blood product transfusion was associated with increased risk of postoperative complications. CONCLUSIONS A haemostatic therapy algorithm based on POC monitoring reduced transfusion and improved outcome in OLT.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D011183 Postoperative Complications Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery. Complication, Postoperative,Complications, Postoperative,Postoperative Complication
D011446 Prospective Studies Observation of a population for a sufficient number of persons over a sufficient number of years to generate incidence or mortality rates subsequent to the selection of the study group. Prospective Study,Studies, Prospective,Study, Prospective
D005260 Female Females
D005340 Fibrinogen Plasma glycoprotein clotted by thrombin, composed of a dimer of three non-identical pairs of polypeptide chains (alpha, beta, gamma) held together by disulfide bonds. Fibrinogen clotting is a sol-gel change involving complex molecular arrangements: whereas fibrinogen is cleaved by thrombin to form polypeptides A and B, the proteolytic action of other enzymes yields different fibrinogen degradation products. Coagulation Factor I,Factor I,Blood Coagulation Factor I,gamma-Fibrinogen,Factor I, Coagulation,gamma Fibrinogen
D006454 Hemoglobins The oxygen-carrying proteins of ERYTHROCYTES. They are found in all vertebrates and some invertebrates. The number of globin subunits in the hemoglobin quaternary structure differs between species. Structures range from monomeric to a variety of multimeric arrangements. Eryhem,Ferrous Hemoglobin,Hemoglobin,Hemoglobin, Ferrous
D006470 Hemorrhage Bleeding or escape of blood from a vessel. Bleeding,Hemorrhages
D006487 Hemostasis The process which spontaneously arrests the flow of BLOOD from vessels carrying blood under pressure. It is accomplished by contraction of the vessels, adhesion and aggregation of formed blood elements (eg. ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION), and the process of BLOOD COAGULATION. Hemostases
D006489 Hemostatic Techniques Techniques for controlling bleeding. Hemostatic Technics,Hemostatic Technic,Hemostatic Technique,Technic, Hemostatic,Technics, Hemostatic,Technique, Hemostatic,Techniques, Hemostatic

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