Anaheim, Calif.—Restrictive or liberal? When it comes to transfusion strategies during cardiac surgery, that’s the question that has divided cardiac anesthesiologists and their surgical partners for decades. Now an international multicenter trial—the largest of its kind ever undertaken—seems to have definitively answered the question.
The Transfusion Requirements in Cardiac Surgery III (TRiCS III) investigation concluded that in patients at moderate to high risk for