Sanne de Bruin

86 Chapter 3 Table S1. Difference between respondents with and without a massive transfusion protocol (continued) Massive transfusion protocol (N= 209) No massive transfusion protocol (N= 192) P-value Type of institution University hospital 100(48%) 78(41%) 0.231 University affiliated hospital 56(27%) 48(25%) Non-university public hospital 39(19%) 43(22%) Private hospital 14(7%) 22(11%) Other (please specify) 0(0%) 1(1%) Availability of transfusion guideline Hospital-wide transfusion protocol 89(43%) 91(47%) 0.386 ICU-specific transfusion protocol 73(35%) 86(45%) 0.056 Table S2. Difference between respondents with anesthesiology and internal medicine as base specialty Anesthesiology (N= 243) Internal medicine (N= 78) P-value Hemoglobin threshold in different subpopulations General ICU population 7[7-7.5] 7[7-7] 0.17 Trauma patients 7.6[7-8] 7.2[7-8] 0.619 Upper gastro-intestinal bleeding 7[7-8] 7[7-8] 0.2 Post cardiothoracic surgery 8[8-9] 8[7.4-9] 0.217 Obstetric patients 7[7-8] 7[7-8] 0.941 Patients with Sepsis 7[7-8] 7[7-7.5] 0.076 Patients on ECMO 8[7-9] 8[7-9] 0.842