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Completed Not applicable Interventional

Transfusion Requirements in Cardiac Surgery III

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02042898

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Official title

An International, Multi-centre, Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess Transfusion Thresholds in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

Brief summary

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TRICS-III is an international, multi-centre, open-label randomized controlled trial of two commonly used transfusion strategies in high risk patients having cardiac surgery using a non-inferiority trial design.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT02042898
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
Unity Health Toronto
Other
Enrollment
5,028 participants

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.

Study timeline

Start date
Jan 19, 2014
Primary completion
Apr 27, 2017
Completion
Sep 30, 2017
Last update posted
Aug 14, 2018

2014 – 2017

United States locations

U.S. sites
8
U.S. states
6
U.S. cities
7
Facility City State ZIP Site status
San Francisco VA Medical Center San Francisco California 94121
Yale-New Haven Hospital New Haven Connecticut 06510-3202
Maine Medical Center Portland Maine
Montefiore Medical Center The Bronx New York 10467
Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center Durham North Carolina 27705
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas Texas 75235
Baylor College of Medicine Houston Texas 77030
Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center Houston Texas 77030

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Non-U.S. locations

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