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Emergency medicine: Injection of drug that promotes blood clotting could save accident victims

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‘Vaccine against trauma death’: Injecting a drug that promotes blood clotting at the scene of the injury could save thousands of accident victims’ lives Tranexamic acid is a drug currently used to stop bleeding in trauma patients At present it is administered via an intravenous line — which is fiddly to set up British and French experts … Read more

Coronavirus: Blood clotting present in every patient who dies

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Every Covid-19 patient who has died of the disease shows signs of blood clotting, a leading scientist has claimed.   Professor Graham Cooke, an infectious disease specialist at Imperial College London, has analysed post-mortems of patients who have succumbed to the life-threatening illness.  Results showed ‘very clearly’ that all Covid-19 patients had some form of thrombosis, … Read more