Risk Factors of Minor Head Injury

Medical University of Vienna

Status: Completed

Conditions: Traumatic Brain Injury; Minor Head Injury; Intracranial Bleeding

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00451789

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Details and patient eligibility

About

Introduction and Aims:

The objective of this prospective study is to evaluate the risk factors of minor head injury in all consecutive patients of one year.

Full description

Minor head injury (MHI)is one of the most common diagnoses in emergency rooms and traumatological outpatient departments. The aim of this study is to find clear evidence which risk factors are the most important in MHI patients to develop intracranial bleeding. We hypothetize that anticoagulation is one of the main risk factors for intracranial bleeding.

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Minor head injury, dizziness, nausea, vomiting

Exclusion criteria

• no injury to the head