ReviewClinical medicine (London, England)2019
Head injury in the elderly - an overview for the physician.
Review in Clinical medicine (London, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Outcome after decompressive craniectomy in older adults after traumatic brain injury.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Potentially avoidable emergency department transfers from residential aged care facilities for possible post-fall intracranial injury.Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA · 2023Article
- Influence of Oral Anticoagulation and Antiplatelet Drugs on Outcome of Elderly Severely Injured Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Are There Any Red Flag Injuries in Severely Injured Patients in Older Age?Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Head injury in the elderly.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2019Article
- Head injury in the elderly.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2019Article
- Getting involved withClinical medicine (London, England) · 2019Article
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Abstract
Head injury is a common cause for hospital admission and additionally 250,000 UK inpatients fall during hospital admissions annually. Head injury most commonly occurs as a result of falls from standing height in older adults. Older adults are frequently frail and multi-morbid; many have indications for anticoagulation and antiplatelet agents. The haemorrhagic complications of head injury occur in up to 16% of anticoagulated patients sustaining a head injury. These patients suffer adverse outcomes from surgery as a result of medical complications. Although geriatric trauma models are evolving to meet the demand of an ageing trauma population, medical support to trauma services is commonly delivered by general physicians, many of whom lack experience and training in this field. Determining the role of surgery and interrupted anticoagulation requires careful personalised risk assessment. Appreciation of the opposing risks can be challenging; it requires an understanding of the evidence base in both surgery and medicine to rationalise decision making and inform communication. This article aims to provide an overview for the physician with clinical responsibility for patients who have sustained head injury.
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