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SUBMITTER: Lin Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3546370 | biostudies-other | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Lin Y Y Moltzan C J CJ Anderson D R DR
Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) 20120527 6
In 2006, the Canadian National Advisory Committee on Blood and Blood Products (NAC) developed a transfusion policy framework for the use of off-label recombinant factor VIIa (rFVIIa) in massive bleeding. Because the number of randomised controlled trials has doubled, the NAC undertook a review of the policy framework in 2011. On the basis of the review of 29 randomised controlled trials, there remains little evidence to support the routine use of rFVIIa in massive bleeding. Mortality benefits ha ...[more]