Medication error: Subarachnoid injection of tranexamic acid
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Tranexamic acid (AMCA) in aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage.
Subarachnoid haemorrhage due to a ruptured cerebral aneurysm is a dramatic event in neurosurgery and one of the most destructive. Its management is complicated by the risks of rebleeding and cerebral vasospasm and their sequelae. Rebleeding and vasospasm rarely occur before three days after the primary bleed.'2 Angiographic vasospasm is seen most often 10 to 17 days after bleeding.3 Because of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0019-5049
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5049.96335