Do you give Tranexamic acid? If you do do you know why it’s used. A common misconception is that it stops bleeding and this is simply not the case. Tranexamic acid is used to prevent your body breaking down the clot that you’ve already started to form. You see when you start bleeding you start clotting, and part of that clotting process has the coagulation chemistry that forms little strings of fibrin to stabilise your clot. Now your body doesn’t like to have lots of fibrin clogging up the works

🩸 Tranexamic Acid (TXA) – How does it actually work? When trauma patients bleed, their body forms clots to stop the loss. But the body also activates fibrinolysis – the natural breakdown of clots. In major haemorrhage this can become overactive, leading to clot breakdown before bleeding is controlled. 👉 TXA works by blocking plasminogen from converting into plasmin, the enzyme that dissolves fibrin clots. 👉 This helps stabilise clots, reduce bleeding, and improve survival if given within 3 ho