Tranexamic acid in trauma: we need stronger global health policy - BMJ Tranexamic acid substantially reduces death in bleeding trauma patients. So why are the World Health Organization, the United Nations, the World Bank, and Unicef not ensuring global implementation?? You might expect that the identification of a highly cost effective treatment for a disease that kills more people each year than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined would stimulate an immediate global health policy response, with strong efforts to make the treatment freely available to all those who need it. Knowing that the United Nations General Assembly had proclaimed 2011-20 to be a “decade of action” for tackling this particular health scourge, you might feel sure that concerted action was being taken. You would be wrong. The “disease” is trauma, and the treatment is a short infusion of a generic drug called tranexamic acid, but there has been no global health policy response...
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:17:23 +0000
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