Selective CT for Anticoagulated Head Injured Patients
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age16+
SponsorDr. Kerstin de Wit
About this trial
The goal is to derive and a clinical decision rule for safe exclusion of traumatic brain injury without neuroimaging in head-injured ED patients who take anticoagulant medications.
The objectives are to:
1. Derive and externally validate a new highly sensitive and maximally specific clinical decision rule for the exclusion of traumatic brain injury in head-injured ED patients who take anticoagulant medications; and, 2. Estimate the sensitivity and specificity of existing head injury clinical decision rules in head-injured ED patients who take anticoagulant medications.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Age ≥16 years
Presents to the emergency department after a head injury
Patient has a head CT in the emergency department
Is a current anticoagulant user
Disqualifiers
Head injury occurred >48 h before patient's arrival to the emergency department
Penetrating head injury
Previously enrolled
Patient resides outside of the hospital's catchment area
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Not listed
Trial groups
No trial groups listed
Sponsors and collaborators
Dr. Kerstin de Wit
Lead sponsor
Queen's University
Sponsor institution
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov