Can predicting transfusion in cardiac surgery help patients?

In this issue of theBritish Journal of Anaesthesia, Klein and colleagues1 describe the ACTA-PORT, a new score for predicting the risk of one or more red blood cell transfusions in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. The authors ’ desire to provide a simple, accurate tool to help predict the risk of transfusion in patients undergoing cardiac surgery is commendable, but does it help our patients?
Source: British Journal of Anaesthesia - Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research