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Table 2 Characteristics of Australian MT patients (n = 2451), by type of Australian peer group hospital contributing data to the MTR (n = 15) [36]

From: Improving outcomes for hospital patients with critical bleeding requiring massive transfusion: the Australian and New Zealand Massive Transfusion Registry study methodology

 

Principal referral hospitals

Women’s hospitals

Private acute group B hospitals

Public acute group A hospitals

Public acute group C hospitals

 

n = 9a

n = 1a

n = 3a

n = 1a

n = 1a

No. of MT cases (≥5 units in 4 h); n (%)

2158 (88.0)

15 (0.6)

46 (1.9)

206 (8.4)

26 (1.1)

No. of MT cases (≥10 units in 24 h); n (%)

911 (42.2)

8 (53.3)

9 (19.6)

83 (40.3)

6 (23.1)

Gender (male); n (%)

1378 (63.9)

0 (0)

19 (41.3)

134 (65.0)

16 (61.5)

Median age (years); [IQR]

63 [48–74]

40 [38–57]

68 [50–78]

69 [54–77]

73 [62–84]

Median hospital length of stay (days); [IQR]

18 [9–35]

9 [6–10]

15 [8–22]

12 [7–28]

6 [5–10]

Admitted to ICU; n (%)

1730 (80.2)

0 (0)

43 (93.4)

143 (69.4)

24 (92.3)

Median ICU length of stay (hrs.); [IQR]

75 [17–197]

0 (0)

75 [38–143]

48 [0–120]

85 [15–150]

Median ventilation time (hrs.); [IQR]

0 [0–52]

0 (0)

0 (0)

19 [0–134]

0 [0–5]

Survival to hospital discharge; n (%)

1706 (79.0)

15 (100)

38 (82.6)

160 (77.7)

24 (92.3)

Median RBC units in 24 h post-MT onset; [IQR]

8 [6–12]

9 [6–11]

6 [6–8]

8 [6–11]

6 [6–9]

Median FFP units in 24 h post-MT onset; [IQR]

5 [2–10]

4 [4–7]

2 [0–4]

4 [2–7]

1 [0–2]

Median Cryo units in 24 h post-MT onset; [IQR]

2 [0–10]

0 [0–6]

0 [0–6]

4 [0–8]

0 [0–0]

Median Plts units in 24 h post-MT onset; [IQR]

1 [0–2]

1[0–1]

0 [0–1]

0 [0–1]

0 [0–0]

Median RBC: FFP ratio in 24 h post-MT onset; [IQR]

1.5 [1.1–2.0]

1.5 [1.5–2.0]

2 [1.5–3.5]

1.8 [1.5–2.8]

4 [3–6]

Admission type

 Elective n (%)

649 (30.1)

6 (40.0)

44 (95.7)

50 (24.3)

5 (19.2)

 Emergency n (%)

1252 (58.0)

3 (20.0)

2 (4.3)

156 (75.7)

18 (69.2)

 Maternity n (%)

32 (1.5)

6 (40.0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

3 (11.5)

 Unknown n (%)

225 (10.4)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

  1. aNumbers are counts of Australian hospitals contributing data to the MTR