Impact of Blood Transfusion on Postoperative Infection and Hospital Stay after Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Abstract

Objective: The blood transfusion during cardiac surgeries has been demonstrated to be increased in length of hospital stay. The aim of current study was to characterize the post-operative complication.

Methodology: A descriptive study was conducted at Cardiac Centre Bahawalpur from 1^st February 2020 to 30^th March, 2021 all patients were divided into two groups. who underwent cardiac surgery during this period Group A (No blood transfusion). Group B (low transfusion 1-2 units)

Results: A total of 176 patients, 122 (69.3%) were male and 54 (30.7%) female. in our study there were 1(1%) in Group A while 5(6.6%) in Group B were found with post-operative infection with statistically significant p-value 0.049. Similarly, hospital stay in group A was 5.8 ± 1.3 while in Group B was 6.9 ± 0.3 showing insignificant p-value 0.067.

Conclusion: A restrictive transfusion policy while considering RCC transfusion seems more useful and patients who require blood should receive the number of transfusions as minimum as possible.

Keywords: RCC Red Cell Concentrates Transfusion, CABG Cardiac Artery Bypass Graft, LOH Length of Hospital Stay, restrictive blood transfusion.