Tranexamic Acid: What Is Known and Unknown, and Where Do We Go From Here?

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Pharmacokinetics Laboratory, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (S.M.G.); and Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Health System Blood Management Program, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland (S.M.F.).

Editorial

Susan M Goobie et al. Anesthesiology. 2017 Sep.

. 2017 Sep;127(3):405-407.

doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000001788.

¹ From the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Pharmacokinetics Laboratory, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (S.M.G.); and Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Health System Blood Management Program, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland (S.M.F.).

No abstract available

Comment on

Intravenous Tranexamic Acid Bolus plus Infusion Is Not More Effective than a Single Bolus in Primary Hip Arthroplasty: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Zufferey PJ, Lanoiselée J, Chapelle C, Borisov DB, Bien JY, Lambert P, Philippot R, Molliex S, Delavenne X; investigators of the PeriOpeRative Tranexamic acid in hip arthrOplasty (PORTO) Study. Zufferey PJ, et al. Anesthesiology. 2017 Sep;127(3):413-422. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000001787. Anesthesiology. 2017. PMID: 28692467 Clinical Trial.