Tranexamic acid: the king is dead, long live the king!

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¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. Electronic address: Heiko.Lier@uk-koeln.de.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Hyperbaric Medicine, Englewood Health, TeamHealth Research Institute, Englewood, NJ, USA.

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Heiko Lier et al. Br J Anaesth. 2020 Jun.

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. 2020 Jun;124(6):659-662.

doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.02.015. Epub 2020 Mar 25.

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. Electronic address: Heiko.Lier@uk-koeln.de.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and Hyperbaric Medicine, Englewood Health, TeamHealth Research Institute, Englewood, NJ, USA.

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Keywords: CRASH trial; WOMAN trial; bleeding; coagulation; coagulopathy; haemorrhage; tranexamic acid.

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Effect of tranexamic acid by baseline risk of death in acute bleeding patients: a meta-analysis of individual patient-level data from 28 333 patients.
Ageron FX, Gayet-Ageron A, Ker K, Coats TJ, Shakur-Still H, Roberts I; Antifibrinolytics Trials Collaboration. Ageron FX, et al. Br J Anaesth. 2020 Jun;124(6):676-683. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.01.020. Epub 2020 Mar 19. Br J Anaesth. 2020. PMID: 32199584 Free PMC article.