NCT02830269

Third Ventricle Echographic Study for Neuro-intensive Care Unit Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Montpellier · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography is usually used in the evaluation and management of patients with brain injury. This noninvasive method measures local blood flow velocity and direction in the proximal portions of large intracranial arteries. The operator requires a short training and experience to perform. The third ventricle diameter measurement by transcranial duplex flow sonography was performed in healthy volunteers . This studies show similar results in those obtained with the MRI or Computer Tomography (CT). Currently the third ventricle diameter measurements by transcranial Doppler ultrasonography was not validated for neuro-intensive care unit patients. The investigators propose to used recent ultrasound system to validate the third ventricle diameter measurements in comparison with the standard method (CT).

Detailed description

Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography is usually used in the evaluation and management of patients with brain injury. This noninvasive method measures local blood flow velocity and direction in the proximal portions of large intracranial arteries. The operator requires a short training and experience to perform. The third ventricle diameter measurement by transcranial duplex flow sonography was performed in healthy volunteers . This studies show similar results in those obtained with the MRI or Computer Tomography (CT). Currently the third ventricle diameter measurements by transcranial Doppler

Conditions

• Neuro-intensive Care Unit Patients
• Brain Injuries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography measurements	Third ventricle diameter measurements with standard method (CT) and Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-08-18
• Primary completion: 2017-05-16
• Completion: 2017-05-16
• First posted: 2016-07-12
• Last updated: 2018-12-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France