"Tranexamic Acid for Surgical Bleeding"

Tranexamic acid has been shown to reduce blood loss during or shortly after major joint surgery (the perioperative stage). However, safety concerns remain because large scale effectiveness studies are lacking. In the USA, over 1 million hip and knee replacements are performed each year. In England and Wales the figure is about 180,000. So a team of US researchers, led by Dr Stavros Memtsoudis at Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College and Dr. Jashvant Poeran at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine both in New York, set out to determine the effectiveness and safety of tranexamic acid in a large sample of US patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement surgery. Learn more