# Balancing Risk: Red Blood Cell Transfusion Strategies In Cardiac Surgery

> **NCT00651573** · NA · COMPLETED · sponsor: **The Cleveland Clinic** · enrollment: 722 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Anemia

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Blood transfusion at hematocrit value less than 24%
- **PROCEDURE:** Blood transfusion at hematocrit value less than 28%

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00651573
- **Lead sponsor:** The Cleveland Clinic
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2007-03
- **Primary completion:** 2014-08
- **Final completion:** 2019-01-03
- **Target enrollment:** 722 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2019-06-14


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00651573

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00651573, "Balancing Risk: Red Blood Cell Transfusion Strategies In Cardiac Surgery". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-07-20 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00651573. Licensed CC0.

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