Status:
COMPLETED
A RCT to Establish the Effectiveness of Intermittent Pneumatic Compression to Prevent Post Stroke DVT
Lead Sponsor:
University of Edinburgh
Collaborating Sponsors:
Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government
National Institute for Health Research, United Kingdom
Conditions:
Stroke
Eligibility:
All Genders
16+ years
Phase:
PHASE3
Brief Summary
Strokes occur when blood flow to part of the brain is interrupted. Patients are often bedbound for several days or weeks although if they survive, most will make some recovery. The lack of mobility en...
Detailed Description
Design: Multicentre randomised controlled trial with observer blinded assessment of the primary outcome. Setting: Stroke units in the UK. Identification of eligible patients, consent, recruitment, de...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Any patient admitted to hospital within 3 days of a clinical stroke fulfilling the WHO criteria.
- and
- • Who is not able to get up from a chair/ out of bed and walk to the toilet without the help of another person
- Patients can be randomised from Day 0 (day of admission) to Day 3 of hospital admission. If a patient has a stroke during a hospital admission they are eligible until Day 3 from the stroke onset (Day 0). Stroke should be the most likely clinical diagnosis but a visible infarction does not have to be seen on a brain scan.
Exclusion
- Patients with stroke due to subarachnoid haemorrhage. These are excluded because they are generally treated in neurology/neurosurgical centres, rather than stroke units, and their care often includes coiling or clipping of aneurysms under general anaesthetic. One could therefore argue that the existing evidence support the use of IPC in surgical patients is adequate to support its routine use in this group of patients.
- Patients who, in the opinion of the responsible clinician / nurse, are unlikely to benefit from Intermittent Pneumatic Compression - for instance those judged to have a very low risk of DVT. For instance, this would include patients who are expected to mobilise within the next day.
- Patients who are anticoagulated (taking Warfarin, unfractionated heparin, Low Molecular Weight Heparin or Direct thrombin inhibitors) at the time of enrolment in whom it is planned to continue the anticoagulation throughout the first week or two after the stroke. These patients are likely to have a very low risk of post stroke DVT and have little potential to benefit from either the IPC or participation in the CLOTS 3 trial. However, patients who may be started on anticoagulants after the first few days for reasons other than prophylaxis against VTE e.g. secondary prevention of ischaemic stroke with atrial fibrillation are eligible for enrolment.
- Patients with contraindications for the use of IPC. These include:
- patients with local leg conditions in which the IPC sleeves would interfere such as dermatitis, vein ligation (immediate postoperative), gangrene, venous stasis, or recent skin graft.
- patients with severe arteriosclerosis or other ischaemic vascular disease as indicated by absence of pedal pulses or history of definite intermittent claudication.
- patients who have massive leg oedema or pulmonary oedema from congestive heart failure.
- Patients who already have swelling or other signs of an existing DVT. Such patients may be recruited once a DVT has been excluded by normal D Dimers or Compression Doppler ultrasound.
- Patients under 16 year of age
- Inclusion in another research study, including another randomised controlled trial, does not automatically exclude a patient from participating in CLOTS 3. As long as inclusion in the other study would not confound the results of CLOTS 3, co-enrolment is permissible. Also, local researchers must avoid overburdening patients. Patients should not be co-enrolled in another research study which aims to test an intervention which aims to reduce the risk of venous thromboembolism
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
December 1 2008
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
2876 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00789542
Start Date
December 1 2008
End Date
March 1 2013
Last Update
June 23 2021
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University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Lothian, United Kingdom, EH16 4SB