Prehospital Tranexamic Acid for Severe Trauma

, Russell L Gruen¹, Biswadev Mitra¹+21

• ¹From the College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University (R.L.G.), Canberra Health Services (R.L.G.), and Joint Health Command, Australian Defence Force (M.C.R.), Canberra, ACT, the Emergency and Trauma Centre (B.M., P.A.C.) and the Departments of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine (P.S.M.) and Intensive Care (S.A.B., D.C.G.), Alfred Hospital, the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (D.C.G., L.J.M., S.J.N., T.T., P.J.Y.), the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (B.M., S.A.B., C.J.M., P.A.C., A.B.F., C.A.M., V.P.), the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (R.L.M.), and the Central Clinical School (P.S.M.), Monash University, Ambulance Victoria (S.A.B.), and the Department of Critical Care, University of Melbourne (P.J.Y.), Melbourne, Aeromedical Operations, NSW Ambulance, Trauma Service, Royal North Shore Hospital, and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney (B.B.), MedSTAR Emergency Medical Retrieval Services, South Australian Ambulance Service (S.M.M.), and the Emergency Department, Royal Adelaide Hospital (S.M.M.), Adelaide, SA, and Queensland Ambulance Service (S.R.) and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland (M.C.R.), Brisbane - all in Australia; Te Toka Tumai Auckland City Hospital (C.J.M.), Hato Hone St. John, Mt. Wellington (B.D.), and the Department of Paramedicine, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology (B.D., A.H.S.), Auckland, and Medical Research Institute of New Zealand (C.J.M., S.H., P.J.Y.), Wellington Free Ambulance (A.H.S.), and the Intensive Care Unit, Wellington Hospital (P.J.Y.), Wellington - all in New Zealand; Cologne-Merheim Medical Center, Department of Traumatology, Orthopedic Surgery, and Sports Medicine, and the Institute for Research in Operative Medicine, Witten-Herdecke University - both in Cologne, Germany (M.M.).