ABC - A Post Intensive Care Anaemia Management Trial

Exclusion Criteria

• •Contraindication or objection to RBC transfusion
• •Active bleeding when screened
• •Primary neurological ICU admission diagnosis
• •Patients discharged from the ICU following cardiac surgery
• •Currently receiving or planned to receive end-of-life care
• •Not expected by clinical team to survive to hospital discharge
• •Patient with a proven chronic haematological disease that requires regular RBC transfusion to treat anaemia
• •Patient with dialysis-dependent chronic renal failure prior to ICU admission
• •Patient receiving regular erythropoietin (or any erythropoiesis stimulating agent) treatment for anaemia prior to ICU admission
• •Unable to obtain consent (frompatietn or in accordance with appropriate mental capacity legislation for the site)
• •Readmission to ICU during current hospitalisation episode and not enrolled following previous ICU admissions
• •Patient recovering following liver transplantation, kidney transplantation, or combined kidney/pancreas transplantation
• •Patient recovering from variceal bleeding due to chronic liver disease
• •Prisoners
• •Patient due for imminent hospital discharge within the next 24 hours