Potential of simple injection on patients with head injury
Study evaluating the effect of tranexamic acid on head injury patients published in BMJ
The study involved 270 adult trauma patients with, or at risk of, significant extracranial bleeding within 8 hours of injury, who also had traumatic brain injury. It was a prospective randomised controlled trial carried out within the larger CRASH-2 trial to quantify the effect of an early short course of tranexamic acid on intracranial haemorrhage.
In May 2011, the CRASH-2 trial collaborators' paper: Effects of tranexamic acid on death, vascular occlusive events, and blood transfusion in trauma patients with significant haemorrhage (CRASH-2): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet 2010: doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60835-5 was named Research Paper of the Year in the BMJ Group Awards.
For more information please contact the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine press office on 0207 927 2802 or email paula.fentiman@lshtm.ac.uk
In May 2011, the CRASH-2 trial collaborators' paper: Effects of tranexamic acid on death, vascular occlusive events, and blood transfusion in trauma patients with significant haemorrhage (CRASH-2): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet 2010: doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60835-5 was named Research Paper of the Year in the BMJ Group Awards.
For more information please contact the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine press office on 0207 927 2802 or email paula.fentiman@lshtm.ac.uk
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