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Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00222742
Date of registration: 16/09/2005
Primary sponsor: Phoenix Children's Hospital
Public title: Hypothermia in Children After Trauma
Scientific title: Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Consortium: Hypothermia
Date of first enrolment: November 2007
Target sample size: 90
Recruitment status: Terminated
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00222742
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
Australia Canada New Zealand South Africa United Kingdom United States
Contacts
Name:   P. David Adelson, MD
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Affiliation:  Phoenix Children's Hospital
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients with a GCS
2. Glasgow Motor Score < 6

3. Closed head injury

4. Age 0 < 18 y

Exclusion Criteria

1. Unavailable to initiate cooling within 6 hours of injury

2. Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score = 3 and abnormal brainstem function

3. Normal initial CT scan (No blood, fracture, swelling, and/or shift)

4. Penetrating brain injury

5. No known mechanism of injury

6. Unknown time of injury

7. Uncorrectable coagulopathy (PT/PTT > 16/40 sec, INR > 1.7)

8. Hypotensive episode (Systolic Blood Pressure <5th percentile for age>10 min)

9. Documented Hypoxic episode (O2 saturation < 94% for > 30 min)

10. Pregnancy



Age minimum: N/A
Age maximum: 17 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Traumatic Brain Injury
Intervention(s)
Procedure: induced moderate hypothermia
Primary Outcome(s)
The primary specific aim of this RCT is to determine the effect of induced moderate HYPO (32-33 °C) after severe TBI in children on mortality. [Time Frame: 3 month post injury]
Secondary Outcome(s)
To determine the effect of HYPO after severe TBI in children of different age ranges (< 6y; 6-<16y; and 16-<18y) on mortality and 6 and 12 months functional and neurocognitive outcomes. [Time Frame: 3, 6 and 12 months post injury]
To determine the effect of HYPO after severe TBI in children on global function and neurocognitive outcomes in the areas of intellectual ability/development, memory and learning, and behavior. [Time Frame: at 6 and 12 months post injury]
To determine the effect of HYPO after severe TBI in children on reducing intracranial hypertension and maintaining adequate cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP). [Time Frame: 7 days post injury]
Secondary ID(s)
1R01-NS052478-01
1R01NS052478-01
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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