Traumatic Brain Injury: Alcohol or Aspirin Consumption Doesn't Lead to Hemorrhage in TBI Patients

A recent study out of Elmhurst Hospital Center showed that drinking alcohol or taking aspirin does not increase the risk of intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Dr. Arien J. Smith, presented the study at the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons in Washington, D.C., says that increasing age rather than consumption of alcohol or aspirin was correlated to hemorrhaging. Researchers looked at 150 patients who were admitted to the hospital after suffering a traumatic brain injury.

Alcohol or aspirin consumption doesn't increase haemorrhaging in TBI Patients

High blood alcohol levels were found in 56.2 percent of the patients and 8.2 percent of the patients looked at were taking aspirin. "Interestingly, we found that neither alcohol nor aspirin were significantly associated with worsening ICH. However increasing age was significantly correlated with worsening haemorrhage," said Dr. Smith.