Six, twelve or twenty-four hours of drainage after the evacuation of chronic bleeding on the brain's surface?
- Conditions
- Preventing prolonged immobilisation due to presence of a subdural drain after evacuation of chronic subdural hematomaSurgery
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN15186366
- Lead Sponsor
- Odense University Hospital
- Brief Summary
2024 Results article in https://doi.org/10.1016/s1474-4422(24)00175-3 (added 17/06/2024)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 2172
1. Adult patients (aged =18 years)
2. Minimum 2 weeks since known head trauma
3. Patients with symptomatic CSDH confirmed on CT or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), admitted to a neurosurgical department for operative treatment
4. Patients undergoing a single burr-hole evacuation and placement of a passive subdural drain
1. Patients with abnormalities in their cerebrospinal fluid
2. Patients with changes or abnormalities in their normal cerebrospinal fluid dynamics, e.g. ventricular peritoneal shunt
3. Patients with additional intracranial pathology that requires neurosurgical treatment
4. Patients with recurrent CSDH or with previous craniotomy or other transcranial surgery
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Current primary outcome measure as of 13/10/2021:<br>Recurrence rate at 90 days measured using modified Rankin Scale (mRS) at 90 days followup<br><br>Previous primary outcome measure:<br>At 3 months post-operatively.<br>1. Recurrence rate measured using mRS
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method