@preopconsult Anemia would certainly be associated with the outcomes they reported but there is no proof that transfusion liberally would help in this population - this 2011 RCT has already debunked the idea of high transfusion triggers for hip fracture…
For patients with CAD there have been some smaller studies that have tried to answer this question but using hgb <8 comes primarily from a subgroup analysis of CAD patients in the FOCUS trial https://t.co/SfMzElztEG
And yet, the literature consistently fails to demonstrate that the elderly benefit from transfusion thresholds higher than what is currently recommended by practice guidelines. The FOCUS trial is one obvious example https://t.co/Ux38UtRApc