Study of Eye Pressure as a Predictor of Intracranial Pressure in the Acutely Head-Injured Population
Completed
Conditions studied: Craniocerebral Trauma
In brief
The purpose of this study is to determine if the pressure in the eye of a severely head-injured person correlates with the pressure in the person's skull. This is a prospective study of patients aged 18 and older who have experienced a traumatic closed head injury and are intubated either before or during the time they are in the Emergency Department (ED). Identified patients have an eye pressure measurement performed in the trauma bay by an OSU ED physician not involved in their care. Information about their hospital stay, including the first brain pressure measurement if a such a measuring device is used, will be collected. In addition, the outcome of their hospital stay will be recorded.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00534157
- Run by
- Ohio State University
- People needed
- 37
- Starts
- 2004-06-01
- Expected to finish
- 2007-04-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2007-09-24
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patients with suspected acute traumatic head injury
- Intubated prior to arrival in the Emergency Department or in the Emergency Department, including patients transferred from other facilities
You may not qualify if…
- Too unstable to allow the investigator access to the head of the bed to perform tonometry.
- Severe ocular or facial trauma such that an intact globe is not accessible
- Known history of glaucoma
- Penetrating head injury
- Patients that undergo operative decompression prior to the placement of an intracranial pressure monitor may be screened in the trauma bay and have an intraocular pressure obtained; however, these patients will not be included in the intraocular / intracranial pressure analysis.
- Known allergy to latex or tetracaine
Where it is running
- The Ohio State University Medical Center — Columbus, Ohio, United States
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