Putting Electroencephalography (EEG) in the Emergency Department
Completed · Phase 2
Conditions studied: Altered Mental Status
In brief
The proposed study aims to test the impact of microEEG on clinical management (diagnosis and treatment) of emergency department patients with Altered Mental Status (AMS). The study will utilize a portable, wireless, FDA-approved device (microEEG) as the intervention. Patients will be randomized to routine care plus microEEG (experimental arm) or routine care alone (control arm). The investigators hypothesize that incorporating microEEG in the work up of patients with AMS will impact the clinical management of these patients.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01671475
- Run by
- Bio-Signal Group Corp.
- People needed
- 149
- Starts
- 2012-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2012-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2013-02-15
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- ED patients ≥ 18 years old with AMS.
You may not qualify if…
- Patients with apparent and immediately correctable cause of AMS (determined by ED attending during initial evaluation) that include:
- Fingerstick or serum glucose less than 60mg/dl
- Hypothermia (Hypothermia is defined as any body temperature below 35.0 C [95.0 F]).
- Hyperthermia, heat exhaustion or heat stroke
- Opioid overdose responding to Narcan.
- Patients who cannot undergo EEG recordings for any reason (e.g. severe scalp injury).
- Hemodynamically unstable patients(SBP <90mm Hg)
- Patients who are uncooperative or combative.
- Patients transferred out of ED before enrollment.
- Patients with obvious tonic-clonic or focal seizures in the ED.
- Note: Patients with hypoglycemia who do not return to their baseline level of mental status within 30 minutes of correcting their blood glucose level, will be enrolled. Similarly, patients who had an obvious seizure in the ED but do not return to their baseline mental status within 15 minutes will also be enrolled.
Where it is running
- Kings County Hospital Center — Brooklyn, New York, United States
- SUNY Downstate Medical Center — Brookyln, New York, United States
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