[HSF] More Bad News About Trasylol

Ben Bidstrup benjamin.bidstrup at bigpond.com
Sun Oct 1 11:19:46 EDT 2006


Someone raised the issue of trials for various drugs, esp aprotinin.
There is one large one underway and that is the BART study. I have 
attached an abstract from the SCA meeting held a few months ago.
This study plans to recruit 3000 patients in a blinded RCT. This a 
report of the first planned interim analysis. It is not drug company 
sponsored. It is powered to look at low rate adverse events.
-- 
Ben Bidstrup FRACS FRCSEd FEBCTS
Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon


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