{
  "abstract": "Traumatic brain injury (TBI) continues to represent a major source of trauma-related morbidity and mortality in the USA, accounting for nearly one-third of all injury deaths. The growing proportion of elderly patients, many chronically anticoagulated for atrial fibrillation, venous thromboembolism, or prosthetic valves, poses a growing clinical challenge. The study by Kulvatunyou et al provides an important, large-scale contribution to this topic by examining the effect of preinjury anticoagulation (AC) on mortality after isolated TBI. Using data from the ACS-TQIP (American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Improvement Program) database, the authors performed a propensity score matched analysis of nearly 97 000 patients over age 50, stratified by head injury severity.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Surgery, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Avital Yohann"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Surgery, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Kareem Ibraheem"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Surgery, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Alexander Colonna"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Will the bleeding stop? A commentary on: Effect of anticoagulation on isolated traumatic brain injury mortality using TQIP database: a propensity score analysis stratified by head injury severity",
  "uid": "e4b2f085-c398-5cce-a01d-c273f6c30354"
}