U.S., June 27 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07671469) titled 'Personalized Blood Transfusion Protocol for Cardiac Patients' on June 22.
Brief Summary: This study compares two accepted ways of deciding when adults recovering from open-heart surgery should receive a blood transfusion in the intensive care unit. One approach gives a transfusion when the blood count (hemoglobin) falls below a fixed level that is the same for everyone. The other approach adds each patient's own physiology - such as oxygen levels and lactate - to help decide whether a transfusion is truly needed, within a safe range. The investigators want to learn whether the personalized approach is as safe as the standard approac...