 The drug Trasylol was used to stem bleeding during open heart surgery but the FDA withdrew it after a study linked the medicine to kidney failure requiring dialysis and increased death of those patients.
The doctor who did the study, Dr. Dennis Mangano, said that 22,000 lives could have been saved if Trasylol had been taken off the market when he first published his study in January 2006, according to a CBS News website report ahead of a broadcast slated for next Sunday. He claims that Bayer had conducted its own research which confirmed the same dangers established by his study but failed to disclose the information to the FDA during an FDA advisory panel meeting in September 2006. Dr. William Hiatt, FDA Advisory Chairman, said that he would have voted to remove Trasylol from the market had he been informed about Bayer's study, according to the CBS report. How many times have I told you people to take new drugs at your own risk! Everytime a new drug comes out, the phone would ring with patients saying they just read on the internet about this new drug for some problem and they want a prescription. Well, there ya go. As for me (RN for more years than I'll admit to), I'll stick with the oldies but goodies like Tylenol & Motrin for pain, Penicillin, Pepto Bismol (even works on my dog), my and Dennis Leary's personal favorite NyQuil. "Not the sissy cherry flavored one but the Nuclear Green colored one. How do you spell it? n-y-big f**kin' Q."
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