Effect of a blood-saving technique on transfusions after heart surgery
Part of Blood & lymphatic, Heart & circulation clinical trials.
This trial tests whether a technique called retrograde autologous priming (using the patient's own blood to prepare the heart-lung machine) can reduce the need for blood transfusions during heart surgery. It is looking at hospitals and surgical teams, not individual patients, so it's not a typical trial you can join directly.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- Your surgery must be done at a hospital that performs more than 200 adult heart surgeries a year.
- Your heart surgery team must agree to use both methods of priming the heart-lung machine as part of the trial.
- Your surgery must use a heart-lung machine (cardiopulmonary bypass).
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
Similar studies
Other trials that look related to this one.
This trial tests whether giving back a patient's own platelets and red blood cells during heart surgery can reduce bleeding and the need for donor blood transfusions. It is for people having certain types of high-risk heart surgery with a heart-lung machine.
This trial tests whether collecting and re-infusing your own blood during heart surgery reduces the need for donor blood transfusions. It's for adults having planned bypass surgery with a heart-lung machine.
This trial looks at how a device that collects and reuses your own blood during heart surgery works. It may help reduce the need for donated blood.
This study tests whether a personalized plan for when to give blood transfusions works better than the usual approach in people having heart surgery with a heart-lung machine. The goal is to find a safer and more effective way to manage transfusions during recovery.
This trial studies giving a “fresh” blood transfusion from your own blood after heart surgery that uses a heart-lung machine. It may help patients avoid needing donated blood, but it only works for people who meet specific safety and timing requirements.
This trial tests if a machine that collects and reuses blood during heart surgery can help patients avoid needing donor blood transfusions. It is for people having a first-time coronary bypass or heart valve surgery.
Hear when a new Red Blood Cell Transfusion trial opens
We’ll email you when one opens — at most once a week, no account needed, unsubscribe anytime.