Moderate elevations in international normalized ratio should not lead to delays in neurosurgical intervention in patients with traumatic brain injury

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 846-850

  Rowell, Susan E ^a   Barbosa, Ronald R ^c   Lennox, Tori C ^a   Fair, Kelly A ^a   Rao, Abigail J ^b   Underwood, Samantha J ^a   Schreiber, Martin A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LEGACY EMANUEL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Coagulopathy; Thrombelastography; Time to intervention; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOCOAGULABILITY; INJURY SCALE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; TIME TO TREATMENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; AGED; BLOOD; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84917679947     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000000459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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