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Background: Emergency department visits due to head injury in the United States have increased significantly over the past decade, and parallel the increasing use of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs).
Objective: We investigated the incidence of delayed intracranial hemorrhage (DICH) in patients with head injury who were taking DOACs.
Methods: We conducted a single-center retrospective study at a level II trauma center. All patients with head injury and using DOACs with an initial negative head computed tomography (HCT) scan from March 1, 2014 to December 31, 2017 were included. DICH was identified as a positive finding on repeat HCT performed within 24 h. Each case of DICH underwent blinded review by two additional neuroradiologists. Demographic data were collected; independent t-tests were used to compare group means and linear regression for variable correlations.
Results: Two hundred and eighty-seven patients with mean age of 80 years (interquartile range 14 years) met inclusion criteria. Repeat HCT was performed in 224 study participants (78%). Five (1.7%) resulted in DICH, three of which might have been present on initial HCT, with an incidence rate ranging from 0.7% to 1.7%. Only two initial HCTs were read as negative by all three neuroradiologists; 60% disagreed on the initial read. Independent t-test procedures showed an association between DICH and higher Injury Severity Score (ISS).
Conclusions: We found a DICH incidence rate of 0.7-1.7%. ISS was statistically significant between the two groups. It is possible that in patients with a subjective estimation of low injury severity, a low mechanism of injury and reasonable outpatient follow-up, patients can be discharged home with standard head injury precautions and no repeat HCT, but further prospective studies are needed.
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