Status:

UNKNOWN

Monitoring Brain Activity in Human Brain Injury

Lead Sponsor:

Soroka University Medical Center

Conditions:

Traumatic Brain Injury

Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

The outcome of brain injury (physical or stroke) may be related to a brain electrical phenomenon known as Cortical Spreading Depression (CSD). This is a brief cessation of function in a local region o...

Detailed Description

Cortical spreading depression (CSD) is a wave of mass neuronal firing and neuronal and glial depolarisation which propagates through grey matter in the central nervous system in response to a patholog...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Immediately following:
  • traumatic brain injury
  • aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage or
  • spontaneous intracerebral haematoma or
  • stroke involving cerebral cortex

Exclusion

  • GCS = 3
  • Bilateral fixed \& dilated pupils or other evidence of massive irreversible brain injury
  • more than 5 days post Injury/ictus.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

September 1 2007

Estimated Enrollment :

100 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00258505

End Date

September 1 2007

Last Update

August 1 2007

Active Locations (2)

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Charite

Berlin, Germany

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Soroka

Beersheba, Israel, 84101