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Last refreshed on: 26 November 2012
Main ID:  NCT01359332
Date of registration: 23/05/2011
Primary sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Public title: Evaluation of Therapeutic Hypothermia in Convulsive Status EPILEPTICUS in Adults in Intensive Care HYBERNATUS
Scientific title: Evaluation of the Interests of a Therapeutic Hypothermia Procedure in Convulsive Status EPILEPTICUS in Adults in Intensive Care - HYBERNATUS Study
Date of first enrolment: December 2010
Target sample size: 270
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01359332
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
France
Contacts
Name:   Stéphane LEGRIEL, MD
Address: 
Telephone: 33(0)1 39 63 88 39
Email: slegriel@ch-versailles.fr
Affiliation: 
Name:   Stéphane LEGRIEL, MD
Address: 
Telephone: 33(1)39638839
Email: slegriel@ch-versailles.fr
Affiliation: 
Name:   Stéphane LEGRIEL, MD,
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- patient age = 18 years

- patient hospitalized in intensive care unit

- patient already under mechanical ventilation

- patient who presented a convulsive status EPILEPTICUS episode (defined as continuous
SEIZURING for longer than 5 min or three seizures not separated by recovery of normal
consciousness or of the level of consciousness present before the seizures)

- whose motor manifestations had begun less than 8 hours before randomization

- after having informed written consent signed by a parent or a close if present.

Exclusion Criteria:

- patients with full recovery, postanoxic status EPILEPTICUS after cardia arrest

- convulsive status EPILEPTICUS for which an intervention (neurosurgical or other) is
urgently needed not allowing the application of the procedure for therapeutic
hypothermia

- dying patient, limitations in care, or whose life expectancy is estimated at baseline
of less than 1 year

- patients whose follow-up to 3 months (+ / - 1 week) seems a PRIORI not possible

- pregnant women (pregnancy positive urine test or known before inclusion),

- participation in another biomedical therapeutic intervention whose primary endpoint
was not reached at inclusion in HYBERNATUS study

- not affiliation to a social insurance



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Convulsive Status EPILEPTICUS
Intervention(s)
Procedure: Moderate hypothermia
Primary Outcome(s)
Functional impairment at 3 months [Time Frame: 3 months]
Secondary Outcome(s)
incidence of functional sequelae [Time Frame: 3 months]
length of hospital stay [Time Frame: 3 months]
length of icu stay [Time Frame: 3 months]
mortality [Time Frame: hospital discharge]
Secondary ID(s)
P081249
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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