The Effect of Cell Salvage on Bleeding and Transfusion Needs in Cardiac Surgery

Table 4

Perioperative hematologic parameters and total thoracic drains (^(t,b): student’s t-test with Bonferroni correction).

Parameter

Hb (g/dL)

Platelets (n^×9/L)

INR ICU

aPTT (sec)

Fibrinogen (mg/dL)

PaO2/FiO2

Thoracic drains 24 h (ml)

Thoracic drains total (ml)

Minimum Hb (g/dL)

Group

CS

C

CS

C

CS

C

CS

C

CS

C

CS

C

CS

C

CS

C

CS

C

Preoperatively mean ± SD

12.9 ± 1.7

13.4 ± 1.4

250 ± 87

229 ± 69

1.13 ± 0.3

1.07 ± 0.1

31.8 ± 3.9

32.4 ± 4.9

409 ± 108

399 ± 98

between groups

0.069^(t,b)

0.055^(t,b)

0.805^(t,b)

0.202^(t,b)

0.548^(t,b)

At ICU admission mean ± SD

10.3 ± 1.2

10.1 ± 1.2

141 ± 50

147 ± 50

1.36 ± 0.17

1.32 ± 0.14

38.3 ± 6.5

37.4 ± 8.1

259 ± 58

265 ± 67

307 ± 104

310 ± 112

p between groups

0.102^(t,b)

0.498^(t,b)

0.049^(t,b)

0.341^(t,b)

0.669^(t,b)

0.692^(t,b)

24 h postoperatively mean ± SD

10.6 ± 1.1

10.1 ± 1.7

130 ± 51

136 ± 49

1.31 ± 0.18

1.26 ± 0.12

42.6 ± 8.5

40.6 ± 9.5

462 ± 81

454 ± 98

241 ± 94

207 ± 84

667 + 388

660 + 445

between groups

0.013 ^(t,b)

0.363^(t,b)

0.013^(t,b)

0.065^(t,b)

0.491^(t,b)

0.008^(t,b)

0.683^(t,b)

Hospitalisation mean ± SD

981 ± 571

924 ± 929

9.5 ± 0.9

9.1 ± 1.3

between groups

0.607^(t,b)

0.013 ^(t,b)

The bold values indicate significantly different at p < 0.05.