After cardiopulmonary bypass, two DDAVP doses did not significantly reduce blood loss at 12 hours.
In plain wordsAfter cardiopulmonary bypass, two DDAVP doses did not significantly reduce blood loss compared with no treatment.
- Peptide
- Desmopressin
- Outcome
- No significant changeBlood loss at 12 hours
- Study
n = 56
- Comparator
- No treatment
- Outcome group
- Blood Loss · Cardiovascular
- Studied dose
- Two doses of 0.3 micrograms/kg · intravenousAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
There was a marked reduction of postoperative blood loss either at 12 hours (P < .01) or 72 hours (P < .02) in the aprotinin group compared with all other groups, whereas no significant effect was observed in either of the two DDAVP regimens.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
This randomized study was performed to assess the efficacy of DDAVP versus aprotinin in the prevention of bleeding after CPB.