Respiratory Impairment after Early Red Cell Transfusion in Pediatric Patients with ALI/ARDS

Table 1

Demographics of ALI and ARDS patients.

Indices	Transfused	Control	P value
Total patients	34	45
Age (months)	48.7±12.3	72.3±9.6	0.129
Weight (kg)	19.6±3.1	25.4±4.6	0.276
Males	35.3%	57.7%	0.040
ARDS/ALI	29/5	36/9	0.377*
PRISM III score	11.8±3.2	9.2±4.2	0.587
Diagnostic criteria
Sepsis	7 (20.6%)	15 (33.3%)	0.159
Pneumonia	17 (50%)	18 (40%)	0.255
Aspiration pneumonia	4 (11.7%)	6 (13.3%)	0.447
Trauma	3 (8.8%)	3 (6.6%)	0.472
Others	3 (8.8%)	3 (6.6%)	0.472
Indirect lung injury	13/34 (38.2%)	21/45 (46.6%)	0.301
Direct lung injury	21/34 (61.8%)	24/45 (54.4%)	0.301

Chi-square was done to determine any significance in relative proportion of variables per categorization.
*Statistic only for ARDS patients.