A Trial to Determine the Efficacy of Near Infrared Spectroscopy to Detect Intracranial Hemorrhage in Children (NIRS)

IWK Health Centre

Status: Completed

Conditions: Intracranial Hemorrhage

Treatments: Device: Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00795119

IWK3748

Details and patient eligibility

About

To diagnose bleeding inside the head, children need to have a CT Scan or MRI of their heads. Not all doctors order these though, especially when there is no history of injury or when children don't look too sick. Unfortunately, this means that some children's bleeding doesn't get diagnosed as early as it could. This study wants to find a way to detect bleeding inside the head without using a CT scan or MRI.

Enrollment: 73 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 36 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All children under 3 years of age who undergo a CT of the head or MRI of the head.

Exclusion criteria

• Lack of parental consent
• Neurosurgical intervention between CT/MRI and NIRS scanning.
• Scalp hematoma

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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73 participants in 1 patient group

NIRS

Experimental group

Description:

Children who undergo NIRS

Treatment:

Device: Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS)