Predictors of mortality in trauma patients with intracranial hemorrhage on preinjury aspirin or clopidogrel

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 785-788

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

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiplatelets; Clopidogrel; Head injury; Intracranial hemorrhage; Plavix

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; TICLOPIDINE;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG FATALITY; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVOR; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; AGE; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BRAIN INJURY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TICLOPIDINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 67650631655     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181848caa     Document Type: Article

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