California Prehospital and In Hospital Antifibrinolytic Therapy Via TXA

Summary

The California Prehospital Antifibrinolytic Therapy (Cal-PAT) study seeks to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Tranexamic Acid (TXA) use in the civilian prehospital and in hospital setting in cases of traumatic hemorrhagic shock.

Timeline

Start

2015-03

Primary completion

2024-07-29

Completion

2024-07-29

Outcome

Missed primary endpoint

paper Although not statistically significant, the prehospital intervention group trended toward a lower 24-hour mortality rate PMID 28611888 ↗

paper a statistically significant decrease in mortality was not observed. PMID 28611888 ↗

Publications

• Background CRASH-2 collaborators; Roberts I, Shakur H, Afolabi A, Brohi K, Coats T, Dewan Y, Gando S, Guyatt G, Hunt BJ, Morales C, Perel P, Prieto-Merino D, Woolley T. The importance of early treatment with tranexamic acid in bleeding trauma patients: an exploratory analysis of the CRASH-2 randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2011 Mar 26;377(9771):1096-101, 1101.e1-2. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60278-X.
• Background Morrison JJ, Dubose JJ, Rasmussen TE, Midwinter MJ. Military Application of Tranexamic Acid in Trauma Emergency Resuscitation (MATTERs) Study. Arch Surg. 2012 Feb;147(2):113-9. doi: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.287. Epub 2011 Oct 17.
• Results Neeki MM, Dong F, Toy J, Vaezazizi R, Powell J, Jabourian N, Jabourian A, Wong D, Vara R, Seiler K, Pennington TW, Powell J, Yoshida-McMath C, Kissel S, Schulz-Costello K, Mistry J, Surrusco MS, O'Bosky KR, Van Stralen D, Ludi D, Sporer K, Benson P, Kwong E, Pitts R, Culhane JT, Borger R. Efficacy and Safety of Tranexamic Acid in Prehospital Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock: Outcomes of the Cal-PAT Study. West J Emerg Med. 2017 Jun;18(4):673-683. doi: 10.5811/westjem.2017.2.32044. Epub 2017 Apr 19.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Tranexamic Acid	Small molecule	1 g	—

Indications

No indication recorded.