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Effect of the Position of the Patient's Head

NCT02549313 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 16

Last updated 2015-11-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The position of the head of the patient influences the cerebral venous return and cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP). In our daily practice, it is almost routine to prescribe a Trendelenburg position 30 ° in all brain-damaged patients. However, this is based only on precarious bibliographic databases. It has been shown to decrease the Intracranial Pressure (ICP) in Trendelenburg position relative to the horizontal, with varying effects on PPC. Effects on sylvian objectified by Doppler velocities and cerebral oxygenation seem unaffected by changes of position of the head of the patient. But the whole of the literature on this subject has significant bias.

Conditions

  • Brain Lesion

Interventions

PROCEDURE

position changes of the head

Registration of blood flow changes induced when the patient's head will be tilted at 0 ° (that is to say flat), 15 ° and 30 ° (the order of actions will be determined by drawing lots). The patient will remain 10 minutes in each of these positions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Laurent GERGELE, MD · CHU de SAINT-ETIENNE

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-10-31
Completion
2015-10-31

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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