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The management of neurosurgical patients requires excellent medical and surgical skills, a career in Neurosurgery offers many challenges and rewards.
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RECRUITING TRIALS
DISCUS (CI- M Papadopoulos/ S Saadoun)
Duroplasty for Injured cervical Spinal Cord with Uncontrolled Swelling: a randomised controlled trial
ENLIVEN-UK (CI - K Aqualina)
Neonatal IVH - endoscopic lavage
FUTURE-GB (CIs - D Nandi/S Camp/P Plaha)
Adult RCT of intraoperative DTI navigation + intraoperative ultrasound versus standard care for pts undergoing tumour resection
HIFU (CI Bojanic)
High intensity focused ultrasound for primary sacrococcygeal bone tumours
Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (A Sinclair and G Tsermoulas)
MAST (CI - P Hutchinson and A Kolias)
Pharmacological management of post-traumatic seizures
POLYFIX (CI- M Kotter)
Posterior decompressive surgery with fixation for degenerative cervical myelopathy
RECEDE (CI - M Kotter)
Randomised, phase II trial to investigate feasibility, safety and regeneration-promoting effects of Ibudilast following surgical decompression in cervical degenerative myelopathy
ROAR (CI - D Bulters)
Risk of aneurysm rupture
SOS (CI - P Hutchinson and A Kolias)
Sugar or Salt: Hyperosmolar therapy in traumatic brain injury
SCiL (CI - A King)
Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist in the treatment of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage
(recruitment complete - in follow up)
TRIALS IN SET UP
GO-SAH (CI- D Bulters)
Genetics of outcome after subarachnoid haemorrhage
Restart tICrH
Timing to restart direct oral anticoagulants in elderly TBI
SCARF-BT
Feasibility study on cognitive rehab in gliomas
STOP 'EM (CI - M Jenkinson)
Prophylactic trial for epilepsy in meningiomas
SWITCH
Surgery versus conservative treatment for spontaneous ICH
TOP-TBI (CI A Kolias and P Hutchinson)
Types and Timing of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis for traumatic brain injury
TRIALS IN FOLLOW UP / WRITE UP
ROAM Liverpool (CI - M Jenkinson) ISRCTN registry NIHR website
Radiation versus observation following surgical resection of atypical meningiomas
CLOSED TRIALS
DENS (CI - P Brennan)
Duration of External Neck Stabilisation following odontoid fracture in older or frail adults: a randomised controlled trial of collar versus no collar
COMMERCIAL TRIALS
Phase II trial to determine whether it is sufficiently likely that CTX DP treatment at a dose level of 20million cells improves recovery in the use of the paretic arm in acute stroke patients.
Randomised double blinded, placebo-controlled, prospective multicentre trial of NOSynthase inhibition in traumatic brain injury
PUBLISHED TRIALS
GALA-BIDD - Improving the intraoperative diagnosis of high-grade glioma using a flourescence biomarker
BASICS - British Antibiotic & Silver Impregnated Catheters for Ventriculoperitoneal Shunts Trial
summary and interpretation of findings
NERVES - Comparison of discectomy to injection for acute sciatica
summary and interpretation of findings
CENTER-TBI Collaborative European Neurotrauma Effectiveness Research in TBI
DEX-CSDH - Randomised double blind, placebo controlled trial of dexamethasone for adult patients with symptomatic chronic subdural haematoma
HTA website PRaM-GBM Predicting sites of treatment failure and tumour recurrence in the invasive margin of glioblastomas
Rescue-ASDH - Randomised Evaluation of Surgery with Cranietomy for patients Undergoing Evacuation of Acute Subdural Haematoma
CARE ( CI - R Salman and N Kitchen)
Active versus conservative management of cavernomas