Frontal Bone Window in ICUF (FBW-ICU)

University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Acute Brain Injury

Treatments: Other: Transcranial doppler examination

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02832895

9489

2014-A01436-41 (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Transcranial doppler (TCD) is an established tool for monitoring flows in intracranial cerebral arteries. Its use is recommanded in the last guidelines on traumatic brain injury. The temporal bone window (TBW) is limited in evaluating flow in the anterior cerebral arteries (ACA) because of an unfavorable insonation angle. Thereby TCD could be unfit to detect a segmental lesion on the anterior cerebral arteries (ACA).

The frontal bone window (FBW) is a promising approach in evaluating flows in the ACA. However, the utility of the FBW for patients with acute brain injury (ABI) in ICU has not been yet determined.

The goal of the present study is to determine the rate of detection of the ACA by using the FBW in patients with ABI in ICU.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Membership in a health insurance scheme
• Patients with an acute cerebral pathology
• Hospitalized patients in a supportive care unit of Montpellier University Hospital
• Be able to benefit from transcranial doppler within 3 days of admission

Exclusion criteria

• Clinical suspicion of encephalic death
• Known allergy to ultrasound gel

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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150 participants in 1 patient group

Transcranial Doppler examination

Experimental group

Description:

Transcranial Doppler examination

Treatment:

Other: Transcranial doppler examination