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Ambulance head injury guidelines: a-head of the game or in need of review?

Barrett, JackOrcid icon; 
Hipkiss, Kate
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Emergency Medical Services
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 Head Injury
 Frailty
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Journal of Paramedic Practice
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Publications - South East Coast Ambulance Service
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12417/1679
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10.12968/jpar.2024.16.1.7
Abstract
Older adults with head injury are a challenging group of patients to the ambulance clinician. Older age, clinical frailty, comorbidities, anticoagulant and antiplatelet medications can contribute to these patients suffering a traumatic intracranial haemorrhage (tICH). Abstract published with permission
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