The need for blood transfusion therapy is associated with increased mortality in children with traumatic brain injury

• Madhuradhar Chegondi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: madhuradhar-chegondi@uiowa.edu

  Affiliations Division of Critical Care Medicine, Stead Family Children’s Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1375-6988

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• Jose F. Hernandez Rivera,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Fuad Alkhoury,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Miami, Florida, United States of America

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• Balagangadhar R. Totapally

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Critical Care Medicine, Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

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