Risk of significant traumatic brain injury in adults with minor head injury taking direct oral anticoagulants: a cohort study and updated meta-analysis.
Gordon Ward FullerLisa SabirRachel EvansDaniel BradburyMaxine KuczawskiSuzanne M MasonPublished in: Emergency medicine journal : EMJ (2020)
The risk of adverse outcome following mild head injury in patients taking DOACs appears low. These findings would support shared patient-clinician decision making, rather than routine imaging, following minor head injury while taking DOACs.
Keyphrases
- direct oral anticoagulants
- venous thromboembolism
- traumatic brain injury
- systematic review
- end stage renal disease
- atrial fibrillation
- optic nerve
- decision making
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- high resolution
- peritoneal dialysis
- meta analyses
- clinical practice
- patient reported
- severe traumatic brain injury
- photodynamic therapy
- optical coherence tomography
- case control