Preinjury warfarin, but not antiplatelet medications, increases mortality in elderly traumatic brain injury patients

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 614-621

  Grandhi, Ramesh ^a   Harrison, Gillian ^d   Voronovich, Zoya ^c   Bauer, Joshua ^b   Chen, Stephanie H ^b   Nicholas, Dederia ^a   Alarcon, Louis H ^a   Okonkwo, David O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aspirin; clopidogrel; mortality; Traumatic brain injury; warfarin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BLOOD DERIVATIVE; CLOPIDOGREL; WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; TICLOPIDINE;

AGED; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVOR; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTILATOR; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BRAIN INJURY; COMPLICATION; INJURY SCALE; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TICLOPIDINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WARFARIN;

EID: 84924107941     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000000542     Document Type: Conference Paper

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