tranexamic acid: a recipe for saving lives in traumatic bleeding

tranexamic acid – a recipe for saving lives in traumatic bleeding

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Tranexamic Acid – a Recipe for Saving Lives in Traumatic Bleeding

Using kitchen scales, carefully weight out 4 kg of rice and pour it into a deep saucepan. Now put your hands into the rice and let the grains run between your fingers. Contemplate carefully each grain. The number of grains (about 140,000) is approximately the number of lives that could be saved each year world-wide if all hospitalized trauma patients with significant bleeding were treated with ...

Tranexamic acid for surgical bleeding.

Tranexamic acid for traumatic hemorrhage.

TBE-CiTE Journal Club: January 17, 2012, with the participation of the following institutions: Trauma Research Program of the Department of Surgery of the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Division of Trauma Surgery, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil. 1.Fellow, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; 2. Professor...

Tranexamic acid for upper gastrointestinal bleeding.

Background Tranexamic acid reduces haemorrhage through its antifibrinolytic effects. In a previous version of the present review, we found that tranexamic acid may reduce mortality. This review includes updated searches and new trials.Objectives To assess the effects of tranexamic acid versus no intervention, placebo or other antiulcer drugs for upper gastrointestinal bleeding.Search methods We...

Thousands of lives could be saved using tranexamic acid for patients with bleeding trauma.

A systematic review of randomised controlled trials of the effectiveness of tranexamic acid (TXA), which reduces clot breakdown, in patients with bleeding after severe injury shows that this inexpensive drug could save tens of thousands of lives a year. The review found that TXA reduces the risk of death in injured patients with severe bleeding by about 10% compared with giving no treatment. Th...