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NCT06067750

Comparison of Narcotrend and Cerebral Function Analysing Monitor in Intensive Care to Monitor Seizures and Deep Sedation

Completed Last updated 14 July 2025
What this trial tests

trial testing Narcotrend compared to Cerebral Function Analysing Monitor (CFAM) in Traumatic Brain Injury in 44 participants. Completed in 25 May 2024.

Timeline
27 June 2023
Primary endpoint
25 May 2024
25 May 2024

Quick facts

Lead sponsorNottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
StatusCompleted
Study typeOBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment44
Start date27 June 2023
Primary completion25 May 2024
Estimated completion25 May 2024
Sites1 location across United Kingdom

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Who can join

1 Month and older, any sex, with Traumatic Brain Injury or Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

A study in the use of the Narcotrend depth of anaesthesia monitor to record a) seizures, and b) monitor a level of sedation referred to as 'burst suppression', in sedated patients in the adult and paediatric intensive care. Studies have shown that patients in coma on the intensive care unit may have subclinical in addition to clinical seizures. Subclinical seizures are seizures that do not show any outward signs and may go undetected. The current gold standard of recording seizures in the intensive care unit is by non-invasive, continuous monitoring of the electrical activity of the brain by electroencephalography (cEEG) using cerebral function analysing monitor (CFAM). This is recorded with simultaneous video recording and is performed by Clinical Neurophysiology departments. There has been a steady increase in demand for this service over recent years. Additionally, CFAM / cEEG is labour intensive and expensive. If trends continue, the proportion of hospitals offering CFAM / cEEG will continue to rise, creating increased demand for specialist staff, of which there are a finite number. Depth of anaesthesia monitors are used by anaesthetists to assess the level of anaesthesia in sedated patients using specialised, automated EEG analysis and are now recommended by NICE (DG6) to tailor anaesthetic dose to individual patients. This study aims to investigate the utility of the Narcotrend depth of anaesthesia monitor to monitor for seizures and burst suppression on the adult and paediatric intensive care unit. These monitors are cheaper and more widely available with the scope to be used at every bed space requiring neuro observation on the intensive care unit. The study aims to recruit all patients who are referred for CFAM / cEEG monitoring at Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) Trust over a 12 month period. These patients will undergo simultaneous recording using CFAM / cEEG and depth of anaesthesia monitoring.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.

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