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FOI 3043 Tranexamic Acid and Bleeding Trauma Deaths

 

1a. Does your trust’s trauma protocol include administration of tranexamic acid to bleeding trauma patients? Yes

 

1b. If yes, at what date was administration of tranexamic acid added to your trust’s trauma protocol? Feb 2011 included in trauma clinicians guide for ED staff

 

2a. In 2013, how many acute trauma patients received a blood transfusion? Currently being audited – accurate information not known at present

 

2b.  Of those, how many were treated with tranexamic acid? Currently being audited – accurate information not known at present

 

3. In how many fatalities recorded in your trust in 2013 was bleeding trauma identified as the primary cause of death? Two

 

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