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CompletedNCT04239755

Doxycycline in Acute Traumatic Brain Injury

Doxycycline Effects on Neurological Outcomes in Patients With Acute Traumatic Brain Injury

Status
Completed
Phase
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
50 (actual)
Sponsor
Damanhour University · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years – 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

evaluate the impact of Doxycycline on both clinical outcome and blood levels of NSE in patients with TBI.

Detailed description

1. Approval will be obtained from Research Ethics Committee of Faculty of Pharmacy, Damnhour University. 2. All Participants agreed to take part in this clinical research and provide informed consent. for unconscious participants, the informed consent was obtained from their legally authorized representative. 3. Patients with moderate to severe TBI will be enrolled from Tanta university hospitals. 4. Serum samples will be collected for measuring the biomarkers. 5. Our design is randomized, controlled study. 6. All enrolled patients will be divided into 2 groups, Group (1) 25 patients that receive doxycycline 100 mg twice daily, either orally or through a nasogastric tube for 5 days, and group (2) will be 25 patients will receive placebo in addition to the standard treatment. 7. All patients will be followed up during ICU period. 8. Statsicial tests appropriate to the study design will be conducted to evaluate the significance of the results. 9. Measuring outcome: the primary outcome is the change in the serum level of acute brain injury biomarkers. 10. Results, conclusions, discussion and recommendations will be given.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
DRUGDoxycycline 100 MG Oral Tabletdoxycycline 100 mg twice daily, either orally or through a nasogastric tube for 5 day
OTHERplaceboplacebo in addition to the standard treatment.

Timeline

Start date
2020-02-01
Primary completion
2020-07-30
Completion
2020-10-30
First posted
2020-01-27
Last updated
2021-02-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04239755. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.