%0 Journal Article %T Pre-operative anaemia is associated with total morbidity burden on days 3 and 5 after cardiac surgery: a cohort study %A Daniel Farrar %A Hugh E. Montgomery %A Jackie A. Cooper %A Julie Sanders %A Michael G. Mythen %A Simon Braithwaite %A Updeshbir Sandhu %J Archive of "Perioperative Medicine". %D 2017 %R 10.1186/s13741-017-0057-4 %X Pre-operative anaemia is associated with mortality and red blood cell (RBC) transfusion requirement after cardiac surgery. However, the effect on post-operative total morbidity burden (TMB) is unknown. We explored the effect of pre-operative anaemia on post-operative TMB %K Anaemia %K Post-operative morbidity %K Total morbidity burden %K Red blood cell transfusion %K Cardiac surgery %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5251298/