%0 Journal Article
%T Traumatic events involving elderly patients treated with anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation: the downside of stroke prevention
							| Emergency Care Journal
%A Aless
%A Grazia Guiddo
%A Maria Ghinatti
%A Pierangela Minuto
%A Roberto Lerza
%A ro Calvia
%A ro Riccardi
%J Emergency Care Journal
%D -1
%R https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2016.5875
%X A group of oral anticoagulant-treated patients affected by permanent atrial fibrillation was evaluated after their access to the emergency room as a result of a traumatic accident. In these patients, the re-evaluation of their risk of thromboembolism and bleeding was performed together with the evaluation of their risk of falling and institutionalization. Results show that the emergency department identifies a cohort of very elderly frail patients, who should be carefully reconsidered for anticoagulant therapy after a traumatic event
%K Oral anticoagulant
%K Fall
%K Elderly
%K Atrial fibrillation
%K Clinical score
%U https://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/ecj/article/view/5875