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Computed tomography findings in a confused patient
- Source :
- BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 355
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- A 75 year old woman was referred to the emergency department from her nursing home because of increasing confusion. She had a history of falls and was taking warfarin for atrial fibrillation (international normalised ratio 2.6). On examination the patient appeared confused but had no focal neurological deficit. She underwent cranial computed tomography (CT) (fig 1⇓). What does this show? Fig 1 The CT scan shows two subdural haematomas: one on the right (fig 2 …
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Computed tomography
Risk Assessment
Severity of Illness Index
Severity of illness
medicine
Humans
Confusion
Aged
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Warfarin
Atrial fibrillation
General Medicine
Emergency department
medicine.disease
Prognosis
Hematoma, Subdural
Acute Disease
International normalised ratio
Disease Progression
Female
Radiology
medicine.symptom
business
Nursing homes
Emergency Service, Hospital
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17561833
- Volume :
- 355
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....20c2e46458d8252614dbd15b21fc9113