The drug is cheap and already used during surgery. The clinical study will look at whether taking it for seven days afterward could speed up recovery times in teenaged patients.

For patients undergoing surgery for elbow trauma, treatment with the hemostatic drug tranexamic acid (TXA) is associated with a decreased incidence of heterotopic ossification (HO) – a common ...

A breakthrough could be coming in the way young people recover from surgery to reconstruct the anterior cruciate ligament ...

NICE has issued draft guidance recommending broader use of tranexamic acid across surgical settings to reduce bleeding, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Tranexamic acid decreases postoperative pain, swelling, drainage output, joint aspirations and hemarthrosis in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Group 1 consisted of 27,890 patients with a history of venous thromboembolism, myocardial infarction, seizures ...

The Vallejo Fire Department announced on Monday that its firefighter paramedics are the first medical professionals in Solano County to administer Tranexamic Acid, a groundbreaking medication used to ...

Tranexamic acid is an antifibrinolytic agent used in patients undergoing coronary surgery to reduce the risk of excessive bleeding and the need for blood transfusions. In the ATACAS trial published in ...

Tranexamic acid appears no more effective than placebo in reducing the need for blood transfusion or preventing maternal death in patients with increased risk for excessive bleeding because of ...

In addition, patients who received tranexamic acid had slightly less need for additional medical or surgical interventions to treat postpartum hemorrhage and a slightly lower drop in red blood cell ...