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EM Basic Essential Evidence- Admission for patients with minor head injury on coumadin- Annals of EM
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EM Basic Essential Evidence- Admission for patients with minor head injury on coumadin- Annals of EM
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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Sep 3, 2012
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Podcast episode
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In this episode, we'll talk about a recent article in Annals of Emergency Medicine that has a lot of people talking. This is a study that looked at patients on coumadin (warfarin) who had minor head injuries. The patients were admitted for 24 hours of observation and had a repeat head CT. The study looked at how many patients had bleeding on a repeat head CT and the conclusions were suprising. Should this be our new standard of care? Maybe but maybe not.
Released:
Sep 3, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
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