Routine repeat head CT may not be indicated in patients on anticoagulant/antiplatelet therapy following mild traumatic brain injury

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 43-49

  McCammack, Kevin C ^a   Sadler, Charlotte ^b   Guo, Yueyang ^a,c   Ramaswamy, Raja S ^a   Farid, Nikdokht ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Antiplatelet; Head computed tomography; Intracranial hemorrhage; Mild traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

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

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; BRAIN INFARCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FAINTNESS; FALLING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERY ELDERLY; BRAIN INJURY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; EVALUATION STUDY; FOLLOW UP; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84921633728     PISSN: 1936900X     EISSN: 19369018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2014.10.19488     Document Type: Article

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