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Novel transfusion strategy for pediatric patients in intensive care

Before this study, entitled "TRIPICU (Transfusion Requirements for Patients in Pediatric Intensive Care Units)," no precise data were available to guide intensive care specialists when deciding about whether or not to transfuse critically ill children. The results of this trial are published today in the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Jacques Lacroix, a professor at the Université de Montréal and a pediatric intensivist as well as researcher at the CHU Sainte-Justine.

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