Aspirin and the risk of intracranial complications following head injury

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 891-892

  Sakr, Magdy ^a   Wilson, Libby ^a  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; EMERGENCY WARD; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FALLING; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; EMERGENCY; REVIEW;

ASPIRIN; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EMERGENCIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS;

EID: 28844495315     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2005.031740     Document Type: Short Survey

References (3)

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2. Mina AA, Knipfer JF, Park DY, et al. Intracranial complications of preinjury anticoagulation in trauma patients with head injury. J Trauma 2002;53(4):668-672.
3. Spektor S, Agus S, Merkin V, et al. Low-dose aspirin prophylaxis and risk of intracranial hemorrhage in patients older than 60 years of age with mild or moderate head injury: a prospective study. J Neurosurg 2003;99(4): 661-665.