management of severe head injury patients
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- severe head injury
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/04/013280
- Lead Sponsor
- King Georges Medical University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 57
Inclusion Criteria
Traumatic brain injury
1)CT scan with no evidence of surgically evacuable lesion
2)GCS <= 8 on admission after initial resuscitation
3)Admission within 24 hours of injury
4)Closed head trauma
Exclusion Criteria
1)GCS of 3 with bilateral fixed and dilated pupil.
2)Severe coagulopathy that is not correctable.
3)Surgically evacuable lesion on CT.
4)Previous Craniectomy.
5)Associated spinal cord injury.
6)Refusal by care takers to become a part of study.
7)Pregnancy.
8)Refusal by care takers after randomization to accept the group the patient is alloted.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Glasgow coma scaleTimepoint: Glasgow coma scale 7 days and 3 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method hospital stay. survival , decrease ICPTimepoint: at discharge or death