Higher risk of traumatic intracranial hemorrhage with antiplatelet therapy compared to oral anticoagulation-a single-center experience.

Purpose: Traumatic brain injury is the main reason for the emergency department visit of up to 3% of the patients and a major worldwide cause for morbidity and mortality. Current emergency management guidelines recommend close attention to patients taking oral anticoagulation but not patients on antiplatelet therapy. Recent studies have begun to challenge this.