Should we still be using hydroxyethyl starch?
Medicine and Science from The BMJ
November 11, 201416m 7s
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Show Notes
Large trials show that hydroxyethyl starch increases the risk of death, kidney injury, and bleeding. So why does the European Medicines Agency still allow its use?
Helen Macdonald, analysis editor for The BMJ, discusses the issue with Christiane Hartog, a lecturer in intensive care medicine at Jena University Hospital in Germany, and one of the authors of an analysis paper on thebmj.com
Read the full analysis paper:
www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g5981