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Table 5 Preferred treatment by specialty

From: Management of blunt extracranial traumatic cerebrovascular injury: a multidisciplinary survey of current practice

Question: In most cases which treatment do you prefer?

 

Anticoagulation

Antiplatelet drugs

Both

Stent/embolization

Neurosurgeon n = 337

137 (40.7%)

105 (31.2%)

59 (17.5%)

36 (10.7%)

Trauma surgeon n = 135

39 (28.9%)

56 (41.5%)

34 (25.2%)

6 (4.4%)

General surgeon n = 19

7 (36.8%)

8 (42.1%)

2 (10.5%)

2 (10.5%)

Vascular surgeon n = 51

29 (56.9%)

8 (15.7%)

9 (17.6%)

5 (9.8%)

Neurologist n = 202

101 (50.0%)

71 (35.1%)

24 (11.9%)

6 (3.0%)

Interventional radiologist n = 30

13 (43.3%)

13 (43.3%)

2 (6.7%)

2 (6.7%)