Risk of traumatic intracranial hemorrhage in patients with head injury and preinjury warfarin or clopidogrel use

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 140-145

  Nishijima, Daniel K ^a   Offerman, Steven R ^b   Ballard, Dustin W ^b   Vinson, David R ^b   Chettipally, Uli K ^b   Rauchwerger, Adina S ^c   Reed, Mary E ^c   Holmes, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTUSION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROIMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; VOMITING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TICLOPIDINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WARFARIN;

EID: 84873898233     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12074     Document Type: Article

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