Clinical significance of posttraumatic intracranial hemorrhage in clinically mild brain injury: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Much attention has been focused on management of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI); however, comparatively little is known about management of traumatic hemorrhage in clinically mild TBI. We aimed to clarify the role of clinical observation and repeat radiography for patients with mild TBI and abnormal findings on initial computed tomography (CT) of the head.

Methods

We queried the neurotrauma database of the Ontario Trauma Registry and the Sunnybrook institutional database to identify patients with CT findings of a traumatic hemorrhage or calvarial fracture between November 2014 and December 2016. Exclusionary criteria were age less than 16 years, Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score less than 13, anticoagulant use, bleeding diathesis and midline shift greater than 5

SUBMITTER: Wang JZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6703987 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature