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Filter by:Patients with acute severe brain injury are usually admitted to the Intensive Care Unit. A substantial proportion of these patients will have disorders of consciousness (DOC) after interruption of sedation. It is difficult to reliably predict neurological outcome in these patients. Dependent on the extent of permanently damaged brain areas, DOC in patients with acute severe brain injury may improve or persist, eventually evolving into a minimal conscious state (MCS) or unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS). These conditions are accompanied by long term severe disability. In current practice, the decision to withdraw life-sustaining support is made by interpreting the results of repeated bedside neurological examination and conventional CT-brain imaging. Reliable identification of patients with a possible good outcome, in whom treatment should not be withdrawn, is difficult. In this prospective observational cohort study we aim to identify patients with a good neurological outcome.
The goal of this observational study is to learn about the role of biomarkers in spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (sSAH) as predictors of severity of clinical outcome. The test of biomarkers is based on regular blood and urinary samples. Blood levels of highly specific cardiac troponin (cTNI), natriuretic peptides (NT-ProBNP), S100 beta protein, neuron-specific enolase (NSE), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase (UCH-L1), soluble Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor-2 (sST2), and soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR), as well as urinary levels of epinephrine and norepinephrine are the biomarkers explored. All adult participants with spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage are involved in the study. The main questions aim to answer are: - which of these molecules can be prognostic for patients' outcome - which are the prognostic levels of these biomarkers to predict patients' outcome. Participants will undergo blood and urinary samples during hospitalization at 24 hours, 72 hours and after 7 days.
The goal of this observational study is to test the association between baseline ventilatory parameters (in particular mechanical power (MP), mechanical power normalized to predicted body weight (MP/PBW) and driving pressure (DP) with the baseline neurological status (assessed through the Glasgow coma score) in adults patients under mechanical ventilation with acute neurological injury secondary to stroke, brain trauma or subarachnoid hemorrhage. The main question[s]it aims to answer are: 1. In patients with acute neurological injury under mechanical ventilation, is there a correlation between the acute neurological injury, assessed using the Glasgow scale on admission, and baseline ventilatory parameters? 2. In patients with acute neurological injury under mechanical ventilation, are the baseline ventilatory parameters altered at baseline?
Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a frequent worldwide cause for stroke with a mortality of around 30%. Worldwide, almost 500 000 patients have aneurysmal SAH annually.An incidence of 2-16 cases of spontaneous SAH per 100 000 person-years was reported in a recent meta-analysis . Surgical treatment of aneurysms is essential in the acute phase of aSAH patients, either by surgical clipping or by endovascular embolization. Although there are many factors that influence the prognosis of patients with aSAH, cerebral vasospasm (CVS) and delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) are the main factors contributing to the high mortality rate (30-40% within 30 days) and poor long-term functional prognosis of patients after aSAH. Cerebral vasospasm (CVS) is defined as focal or diffuse temporary narrowing of vessel diameter due to contraction of smooth muscle in the arterial wall, which can be detected by digital subtraction angiography (DSA), transcranial ultrasound Doppler (TCD), magnetic resonance (MR), and CT angiography (CTA) or visualised during intraoperative.The prevalence of CVS after aSAH is 67% , with symptomatic patients (symptomatic vasospasm) in 30-40% of them and leading to ischaemic events in 10-45% of patients. It usually begins 3-4 days after bleeding, peaks at 7-10 days and finally resolves at around 14-21 days. There is no effective treatment to prevent cerebral vasospasm events.Shuxuening Injection is a sterilized aqueous solution made by extraction of Ginkgo biloba. The study aims to clarify the clinical study of the efficacy and safety of Shuxuening Injection (10ml/branch) for the prophylactic of cerebral vasospasm (CVS) after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Brain injuries are common and challenging problems faced by emergency physicians. These diagnoses may include traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, ruptured cerebral aneurysms, unruptured cerebral aneurysms, and arteriovenous malformations, which require neurological, neurosurgical, and/or endovascular treatment.
The proposed study aims to evaluate the CNS penetration of telavancin in a critically ill population using cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drawn from external ventricular drains (EVDs) in patients who have had spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Patients with SAH were chosen as the target population because they frequently require prolonged admission to the intensive care unit and drainage of CSF in order to prevent hydrocephalus. The estimated sample size is 20 subjects. This is a prospective cohort of patients with SAH. Patients will be included if they have a spontaneous SAH, aged 18-65 years old, Hunt-Hess score of 1-4 & has an actively draining ventriculostomy. Subjects will receive telavancin 10mg/kg (maximum 1000mg) every 24 hours for 3 consecutive doses. Serial serum and CSF samples will be obtained. An 8-hour urine collection will be completed on study day 2 in order to define the patient's measured creatinine clearance.
The purpose of this study is to examine the safety and feasibility of using hyperpolarized metabolic MRI to study early brain metabolism changes in subjects presenting with head injury and suspected non-penetrating traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study will also compare HP pyruvate MRI-derived metrics in TBI patients with healthy subjects as well as Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) patients to better understand if metabolic Magnetic resonance imaging scan (MRI) can improve our ability to diagnose a TBI. The FDA is allowing the use of hyperpolarized [1-13C] pyruvate (HP 13C-pyruvate) in this study. Up to 15 patients (5 with TBI, 5 with SAH, and 5 healthy volunteers) may take part in this study at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB).
The goal of this prospective, multicenter, observational, cohort trail is to explore the pattern of brain temperature-brain pressure association in acute brain injury and to clarify its predictive value for prognosis and neurological function 30 days after acute brain injury.
A study in the use of the Narcotrend depth of anaesthesia monitor to record a) seizures, and b) monitor a level of sedation referred to as 'burst suppression', in sedated patients in the adult and paediatric intensive care. Studies have shown that patients in coma on the intensive care unit may have subclinical in addition to clinical seizures. Subclinical seizures are seizures that do not show any outward signs and may go undetected. The current gold standard of recording seizures in the intensive care unit is by non-invasive, continuous monitoring of the electrical activity of the brain by electroencephalography (cEEG) using cerebral function analysing monitor (CFAM). This is recorded with simultaneous video recording and is performed by Clinical Neurophysiology departments. There has been a steady increase in demand for this service over recent years. Additionally, CFAM / cEEG is labour intensive and expensive. If trends continue, the proportion of hospitals offering CFAM / cEEG will continue to rise, creating increased demand for specialist staff, of which there are a finite number. Depth of anaesthesia monitors are used by anaesthetists to assess the level of anaesthesia in sedated patients using specialised, automated EEG analysis and are now recommended by NICE (DG6) to tailor anaesthetic dose to individual patients. This study aims to investigate the utility of the Narcotrend depth of anaesthesia monitor to monitor for seizures and burst suppression on the adult and paediatric intensive care unit. These monitors are cheaper and more widely available with the scope to be used at every bed space requiring neuro observation on the intensive care unit. The study aims to recruit all patients who are referred for CFAM / cEEG monitoring at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) Trust over a 12 month period. These patients will undergo simultaneous recording using CFAM / cEEG and depth of anaesthesia monitoring.
An MRI study to examine the relationship between blood pressure and cerebral blood flow in patients with subarachnoidal hemorrhage and suspect or verified vasospasm.