Treatment of trauma patients with intracranial hemorrhage on preinjury warfarin

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 318-321

  Ivascu, Felicia A ^a   Janczyk, Randy J ^a   Junn, Fredrick S ^a   Bair, Holly A ^a   Bendick, Phillip J ^a   Howells, Greg A ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Coumadin; Head injury; Intracranial hemorrhage; Mortality; Warfarin

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIAGE; WARFARIN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33747605556     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000223944.25922.91     Document Type: Article

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