Post-operative Intravenous Iron to Treat Iron-deficiency Anemia in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

Summary

POAM is a multicenter, randomized, controlled, internal pilot trial, using a conventional, parallel group, two-armed design at 3 cardiac surgery centres in Canada. The study is designed to assess the feasibility of a future, definitive RCT investigating whether, in patients with chronic iron-deficiency anemia undergoing cardiac surgery, IV iron therapy in the postoperative period (initiated shortly after surgery, and repeated at 42 days after surgery, if needed) improves clinical outcomes (days alive and out of hospital at 90 days after surgery; DAOH-90) relative to placebo.

Timeline

Start

2025-04-03

Primary completion

2026-12

Completion

2027-06

Publications

• Bartoszko J, Miles S, Ansari S, Grewal D, Li M, Callum J, McCluskey SA, Lin Y, Karkouti K. Postoperative intravenous iron to treat iron-deficiency anaemia in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a protocol for a pilot, multicentre, placebo-controlled randomized trial (the POAM trial). BJA Open. 2024 Jul 27;11:100303. doi: 10.1016/j.bjao.2024.100303. eCollection 2024 Sep.

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