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