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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Sep 2011
Transfusion of leukocyte-depleted red blood cells is not a risk factor for nosocomial infections in critically ill children.
- Marc van Heerde, Martin C J Kneyber, and Judith van der Wal.
- Department of Paediatric Intensive Care, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Pediatr Crit Care Me. 2011 Sep 1;12(5):519-24.
ObjectivesTransfusion of red blood cells is increasingly linked with adverse outcomes in critically ill children. We tested the hypothesis that leukocyte-depleted red blood cell transfusions were independently associated with increased development of bloodstream infections, ventilator-associated pneumonias, or urinary tract infections.DesignHistorical, descriptive cohort study.SettingSingle-center, mixed medical-surgical, closed nine-bed pediatric intensive care unit of a tertiary university hospital.PatientsAll children <18 yrs of age consecutively admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit during a 3-yr period (January 1, 2005, to December 31, 2007).InterventionsNone.ResultsOne thousand one hundred twenty-three patients were admitted, of whom 503 (44.8%) were admitted for >48 hrs. Sixty-five (12.9%) had a nosocomial infection (incidence 19.3 per 1,000 pediatric intensive care unit admissions per year). Patients with a nosocomial infection were significantly more often male (72.3% vs. 27.7%, p = .033), had a higher Pediatric Risk of Mortality II score (median 19.1 [range, 6-44] vs. 18.0 [range, 2-39], p = .023), were more often ventilated (95.4% vs. 80.1%, p = .003), and received more often red blood cell transfusions (55.4% vs. 40.2%, p = .021). Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that male gender (odds ratio, 2.07; 95% confidence interval, 1.14-3.76), presence of an indwelling central venous catheter (odds ratio, 2.41; 95% confidence interval, 1.29-4.48), and simultaneous use of more than one type of antimicrobial drug were independently associated with the development of nosocomial infections. Red blood cell transfusion was discarded as a predictor.ConclusionsTransfusion of leukocyte-depleted red blood cells was not independently associated with the development of nosocomial infections in a heterogeneous group of critically ill children.
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