NCT04783610

Ethanol-induced Vestibular Dysfunction as a Model for Bilateral Vestibular Syndrome.

Ethanol-induced Vestibular Dysfunction as a Model for Bilateral Vestibular Syndrome: Similarities in VHIT and VOG Data.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Turku University Hospital · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 22 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to create a vHIT- and VOG-model for bilateral vestibular neuronitis, via ethanol administration in healthy human subjects.

Detailed description

Ethanol administration has an effect on vestibular function, measurable with video head impulse test (vHIT)- and vestibulo-oculography (VOG)-methods. The purpose of the study is to create a vHIT- and VOG-model for bilateral vestibular neuronitis, a disease with difficult diagnostics, via ethanol administration in healthy human subjects. As subjects are consuming ethanol via oral route, vHIT-measurements and VOG-measurements (slow and rapid eye movement recordings) are being recorded in order to measure the change in vestibular function. During approx. 5 hours, 4 vHIT measurements will take place, while subjects ingest ethanol towards 1 per mille levels, measured via alcoholmeter. Necessary precautions include strict exclusion criteria regarding health of the subjects and also comprehensive preparedness for management of allergic reactions and other unusual phenomena related to alcohol consumption.

Conditions

• vHIT- and VOG-model for Bilateral Vestibular Neuronitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Ethanol	Ethanol will be administered via oral route.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-01
• Primary completion: 2021-10-01
• Completion: 2021-10-01
• First posted: 2021-03-05
• Last updated: 2021-03-05