To conduct the study, 50 patients with age range of 18 to 60 years, ASA class 1 or 2, who are candidates for surgery to remove a brain tumor, will be enrolled in the study.
Patients with liver, kidney and blood disorders will be excluded from the study.
The amount of hemoglobin, prothrombin time with international normalized ratio, platelet count and hematocrit will be measured.
General anesthesia will be induced by 2mg/kg fentanyl and 5mg/kg thiopental. Muscular relaxation will be done by 0.5mg/kg atracurium .
After Intubation of patient, carbon dioxide of the end of tidal volume and blood pressurewill be monitored. Patients will be randomly assigned to one of the two groups. The TXA group will receive 15mg/kg of drug in 500 mL normal saline during 30 minutes and the saline group will receive only similar volume of normal saline.
Anesthesia will be maintained by isoflurane. Ventilation parameters, will be set in order to maintain the tidal volume of carbon dioxide in 30-40 mmHg.
Fluid Therapy will be managed, by prescribing colloid and crystalloid soluble.
The amount of hemorrhage during surgery will be substituted by an equal volume of packed cell. An adequate substitution and also preservation of intravascular volume, will be managed by blood pressure monitoring and urine output.
The amount of hemoglobin will be measured before and also 24 hours after operation.
One day after operation, POD, Hb and HCT will be measured.
The amount of bleeding will be compared between the two groups at the end of the study.