Sanne de Bruin

77 Transfusion practice in the bleeding critically ill; an international online survey – The TRACE-2 Survey 17. Do you give tranexamic-acid in massive bleeding critically ill patients who are con- sidered… Always Most of the time Sometimes Never A general bleeding ICU population Traumatic bleeding Upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding Post-cardiothoracic surgery bleeding Obstetric bleeding Sepsis + bleeding Disseminated intravascular coagulation + bleeding Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation + bleeding Hemorrhagic stroke and/or traumatic brain injury + bleeding Red blood cell transfusion The following questions concern ICU patients that have non-massive blood loss. 18. Which unit do you use to measure hemoglo- bin levels? a. g/dl b. g/L (=mg/ml) c. mmol/L What is your threshold for red blood cell con- centrate (RBC) transfusion in... 19. … a general population of non-massively bleeding critically ill patients? 20. … traumatic non-massively bleeding criti- cally ill patients? 21. … upper gastrointestinal-tract non-mas- sively bleeding critically ill patients? 22. … post-cardiothoracic surgery non-mas- sively bleeding critically ill patients? 23. … obstetric non-massively bleeding critical- ly ill patients? 24. … septic non-massively bleeding critically ill patients? 25. … non-massively bleeding critically ill patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation? 26. … non-massively bleeding critically ill pa- tients suffering from a hemorrhagic stroke and/or traumatic brain injury? 27. Do you check hemoglobin levels before transfusing a second unit of RBC in non-massively bleeding critically ill pa- tients in the ICU? a. Always b. Most of the time c. Sometimes d. Never 3