TREATING THROMBOTIC COMPLICATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE

Authors
Citation
Dl. Cohen, TREATING THROMBOTIC COMPLICATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 32(5), 1998, pp. 417-419
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
ISSN journal
00358819
Volume
32
Issue
5
Year of publication
1998
Pages
417 - 419
Database
ISI
SICI code
0035-8819(1998)32:5<417:TTCIPW>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Objective: To find out how physicians would manage thrombotic complica tions in patients with primary intracerebral haemorrhage. Design: Fift y-six participants at a British Geriatrics Society session on stroke w ere asked to state on a self-completion question sheet how they would manage two hypothetical cases. Results: There was support for a wide r ange of treatments but no consensus on how to treat patients with life -threatening thrombosis after cerebral haemorrhage.