An analysis of predictive markers for intracranial haemorrhage in warfarinised head injury patients

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 28-31

  Rendell, Simon ^a   Batchelor, John S ^a  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; WARFARIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872336237     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2011-200176     Document Type: Article

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