Repeat head computed tomography in anticoagulated traumatic brain injury patients: Still warranted

American Surgeon

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-47

  Joseph, Bellal ^a   Sadoun, Moutamn ^a   Aziz, Hassan ^a   Tang, Andrew ^a   Wynne, Julie L ^a   Pandit, Viraj ^a   Kulvatunyou, Narong ^a   O'Keeffe, Terence ^a   Friese, Randall S ^a   Rhee, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

AGE; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOTOMY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; EVALUATION STUDY; HEAD INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; BRAIN INJURIES; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TICLOPIDINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WARFARIN;

EID: 84894839224     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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