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Spinal Cord Stimulation in Patients With Disorders of Consciousness

NCT04010838 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2019-07-08

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Summary

Disorders of consciousness(DOC) is the most serious complications and has been widely paid attention to by the government. DOC patients cause large social and economic burden to our society for there has no effective cure so far. Spinal cord stimulation(SCS) for wake-promoting therapy has aroused scholars' attention and become a hot area recently. There was much debate about the effectiveness of SCS therapy, but because of the limitation of our understanding of consciousness and the uncertainty of parameters of the stimulation, So, to figure out the indications and effectiveness of neuromodulation therapy should be the first step, and finding individual treatment and parameter may have important implications for DOC patients.

Conditions

  • Disorder of Consciousness
  • Minimally Conscious State
  • Vegetative State

Interventions

PROCEDURE

spinal cord stimulation

The spinal cord stimulation(SCS) is a type of implantable neuromodulation device (spinal cord stimulator) that is used to send electrical signals to select areas of the spinal cord (C2-C4 in this study) for the treatment of disorders of consciousness.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Huashan Hospital

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-07-01
Primary Completion
2021-12-31
Completion
2023-06-30

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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