Coagulopathy as a predictor of mortality after penetrating traumatic brain injury.
AUTHORS
Folkerson
LE ,
Sloan
D ,
Davis
E ,
Kitagawa
RS ,
Cotton
BA ,
Holcomb
JB ,
Tomasek
JS ,
Wade
CE ,
. The American journal of emergency medicine. 2017 7 5; ().
- PMID: 28764996 [PubMed].
ABSTRACT
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of mortality with penetrating TBI (p-TBI) patients having worse outcomes. These patients are more likely to be coagulopathic than blunt TBI (b-TBI) patients, thus we hypothesize that coagulopathy would be an early predictor of mortality.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of mortality with penetrating TBI (p-TBI) patients having worse outcomes. These patients are more likely to be coagulopathic than blunt TBI (b-TBI) patients, thus we hypothesize that coagulopathy would be an early predictor of mortality.
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