A retrospective review of patients with head injury with coexistent anticoagulant and antiplatelet use admitted from a UK emergency department

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 871-876

  Major, J ^a   Reed, Matthew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPYRIDAMOLE; WARFARIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WARFARIN;

EID: 72449164465     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2008.068643     Document Type: Article

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