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Register: SLCTR
Last refreshed on: 27 May 2013
Main ID:  SLCTR/2007/008
Date of registration: 12/06/2007
Primary sponsor: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Public title: International study of bleeding after injury
Scientific title: Clinical Randomization of an Antifibrinolytic agent in Significant Haemorrhage
Date of first enrolment: 1/4/2007
Target sample size: 20000 patients around the world
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://www.slctr.lk/trial_details.asp?reg_id={89CEE364-D6E9-4305-816A-EB81B5B24F85}
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Doubled blind controlled randomization  
Countries of recruitment
Albania,Argentina,Australia,Belgium,Cameroon,Canada,Colombia,Cuba,Czech Republic,Ecuador,Egypt,Georgia,India,Indonesia,Iran,Iraq,Italy,Japan,Malaysia,Mexico,Nigeria,Peru,Saudi Arabia,Serbia and Montenegro,Singapore,Slovakia,SA,Thailand,Tunisia,UK
Contacts
Name: Dr. R.N. Ellawala 
Address:  Accident Service , National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo
Telephone: + 94(0)777316933
Email: ranjithellawala@yahoo.com
Affiliation:  Consultant Surgeon
Name: Ms Haleema Shakur 
Address:  LSHTM, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Telephone: +44(0)20 7958 8113
Email: Haleema.Shakur@Lshtm.ac.uk
Affiliation:  Trials Manager
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: All patients whose age is 16 yrs old or above with significant haemorrhage following trauma.( systolic blood pressure 90 mm hg and / or heart rate is more than 110/ min.) within 8 hours of injury
Exclusion criteria: Patient who requires tranexamic acid as a treatment or its use is contraindicated

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Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Haemorrhage following trauma
Intervention(s)
Loading dose of Tranexamic acid or placebo 1 grm. in 100 ml of 0.9% NaCL over 10 min. followed by 1 grm. of tranexamic acid or placebo over 8 hrs duluted in 0.9% NaCL 240 ml
Primary Outcome(s)
Death in hospital within 4 weeks of injury
Secondary Outcome(s)
Receipt of a blood products transfusion, the number of units of blood products transfused, surgical intervention and the occurrence of thrombo- embolic episodes
Secondary ID(s)
Protocol number ISRCTN86750102, EudraCT 2004-002955-14
Source(s) of Monetary Support
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and WHO
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Penny Ireland (Research Contracts Officer)
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