Effect of tranexamic acid in traumatic brain injury: A nested randomised, placebo controlled trial (CRASH-2 Intracranial Bleeding Study)

BMJ

Volumn 343, Issue 7816, 2011, Pages

  Perel, Pablo ^a   Salman, Rustam Al Shahi ^a   Constain, Alfredo ^a   Dewan, Yashbir ^a   Herrera, Jorge ^a   Kawahara, Taemi ^a   Lal, Anil P ^a   Mejía Mantilla, Jorge ^a   Morales, Carlos ^a   Morris, Zoe ^a   Prieto Merino, David ^a   Ramana, P V ^a   Ravi, R R ^a   Roberts, Ian ^a   Sandercock, Peter ^a   Shakur, Haleema ^a   Wardlaw, Joanna ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADULT; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANEXAMIC ACID; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960688357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d3795     Document Type: Article

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