View clinical trials related to Craniosynostoses.
Filter by:This is a study which investigates the wear time and fit of a cranial remolding orthosis (a standard-of-care treatment where an infant wears a custom helmet to help reshape their head as they grow).
Craniostenosis is a congenital disorder caused by early fusion of the cranial sutures between the skull bones, resulting in orbito-naso-frontal deformities. The damage is primarily aesthetic, but intracranial hypertension may also be observed. The treatment of craniostenosis involves surgery, to restore harmonious growth between the skull bones and the brain, and proper development of the latter. There are various surgical techniques for correction, based on remodeling of the upper forehead and the orbito-naso-frontal band (BONF). However, BONF reshaping is difficult to tailor to each individual child. In most cases, the surgeon performs the reshaping "freehand", without a template. The result is therefore subject to the surgeon's experience and judgment. A surgical instrument (template) has been developed to guide the surgeon in the ideal reshaping of the BONF in patients with anterior craniostenosis (anterior plagiocephaly and trigonocephaly), according to each child's specific morphology. The aim of EPBONF research is to evaluate the benefits of using this template on the symmetry and angle of the BONF.
Aim of study: 1. To evaluate outcome of cases( cosmoses and cognition) after Craniosynostosis surgery 2. - To ascertain intra- and postoperative complications
Postoperative pain is a major concern in routine management of children admitted to pediatric intensive care treatment. There are significant negative physiological and psychological ramifications of postoperative pain such as impairment of cardiac function due to tachycardia, restlessness in an intubated patient requiring increase dosage of sedative and paralytic drugs and reduced patient cooperation in the healing process. The main body of evidence dealing with gender differences in pain perception and treatment stems from studies in the adult and adolescent population as the gonadal hormones have a central role in the way one experiences pain The hypothesis of this study is that there is a difference in the perception of pain, the amount of analgesia used and the response to pain medication between male and female infants undergoing craniosynostosis repair or untethering of cord.