Does the use of tranexamic acid improve trauma mortality?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 460-462

  Harvey, Virginia ^a   Perrone, Jeanmarie ^a   Kim, Patrick ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTUSION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SEVERITY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK REDUCTION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURVIVAL; TISSUE INJURY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; TRANEXAMIC ACID; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84896487741     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.08.028     Document Type: Review

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