A randomized study of convention decompressive surgery versus novel technique of retaining bone flap by four quadrant technique for traumatic brain injury
Phase 2
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Head injury patients
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2017/12/010981
- Lead Sponsor
- il
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 115
Inclusion Criteria
1) Patients with Traumatic Brain injury with surgically evacuable lesions planned for primary decompressive craniectomy and following evacuation of hematoma and lax augmentation duroplasty, brain is persistingly bulging
2) If ICP is persistently >25mmHg for 1-12 hours in patients on ICP monitoring for traumatic brain injury with surgically non-evacuable lesions(secondary decompressive craniectomy)
Exclusion Criteria
1) Refusal by caretakers to become a part of the study
2) Patients requiring mass closure due to unstable clinical condition/malignant cerebral edema
3) Patients with penetrating contaminated wounds
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method