Clinical trials: Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic Brain Injury, Intracranial Hypertension
Effect of Ketamine (Ketalar) on Intracranial Pressure
Objectives: Ketamine is an effective, short-acting anesthetic drug, which does not decrease blood pressure. It is widely stated that Ketamine increases intracranial pressure (ICP), which prevents its use in many emergency…
- Trial name
- NCT00437814
- Testing
- Ketamine, effect on intracranial pressure
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Rambam Health Care Campus
Traumatic Brain Injury, Cerebral Infarction
Characteristics of Blood- Brain Barrier Permeability in Neurological Patients
The main goal of the present study is to challenge the hypothesis that blood- brain barrier disruption following brain injury increases the risk for long-term disability, development of brain dysfunction, epileptic seizures and…
- Conditions
- Traumatic Brain Injury, Cerebral Infarction, Cerebral Hemorrhage
- Trial name
- NCT00419874
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Soroka University Medical Center
Traumatic Brain Injury
Is Sensory Stimulation Effective in Reducing Time Spent in a Coma or Vegetative State
A randomised control trial of patients who have a severe brain injury to determine if patients who receive a standardised sensory stimulation program emerge earlier from a vegetative state.
- Trial name
- NCT00163878
- Testing
- Sensory Stimulation, Sesnory Modality Assessment and Rehabilitation Technique
- Where
- 2 sites in Australia
- Sponsor
- Bayside Health
Traumatic Brain Injury
Dexanabinol in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Each year a large number of patients are hospitalized at Shock Trauma Centers with severe head injuries. Bleeding into and swelling of these patients' brains may cause compression of vital structures, disability and death.
- Trial name
- NCT00129857
- Testing
- Dexanabinol
- Volunteers
- 860 people
- Sponsor
- Pharmos
Traumatic Brain Injury
Excitatory Amino Acids and Activated Microglia After Traumatic Brain Injury: a (R)-[11C]PK11195 PET Study
Excitatory amino acids may be involved in secondary neuronal damage after traumatic brain injury. The amount of microglia activation is an indirect measure of neuronal damage.
- Trial name
- NCT00205582
- Testing
- Positron Emission Tomography
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc