Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) increases with advancing age. AF is associated with thrombotic complications—stroke and embolism—and bleeding complications as well as frailty, syncope, and falls.1 All of these complications become acutely relevant in the trauma bay, and provision of multidisciplinary care to patients with traumatic injury and comorbidity of AF on anticoagulant therapy is a routine practice for both trauma surgeons and consultant cardiologists alike.
Source: Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open
Author: Thomas Metkus
Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Language: English
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,100
OpenAlex ID: W4417536336