SYNAPSE-ICU STUDY: REGISTER YOUR UNIT!
Dear Colleague,
SYNAPSE-ICU - An international prospective observational StudY on iNtrAcranial PreSsurE in intensive care (ICU) study, an initiative from the ESICM NIC Section, was recently awarded by the ESICM Trials Group and has now officially launched.
This important observational study aims to explore ICP monitoring variation in practice in order to prioritise uncertainties in the clinical management of critical care patients with acute brain injury and will support further collaborative hypotheses based prospective studies.
We are excited to inform you that SYNAPSE-ICU is now open for eligible ICUs to register to join!
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If you admit in your ICU traumatic and non-traumatic neurological patients… you are eligible for participating.
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If you are looking for some evidence clarifying the conundrum about intracranial pressure monitoring and treatment… you are eligible for participating.
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If you routinely do not monitor intracranial pressure in your unit… you are eligible for participating. On the other hand, if you routinely monitor intracranial pressure in your unit… you are eligible for participating too.
We encourage you to register your interest in participating HERE and diffuse this message in your network. The study will require screening and recruitment for 12 weeks at each centre, aiming at 30 patients/centre (with a limit of 30 patients/centre for each pathology). The eCRF is very simple and straightforward and the burden for the centres limited. Enrollment will start in early 2018, allowing centres to require local approval, if needed.
Find more details on the SYNAPSE-ICU Study, including the downloadable study protocol, on the ESICM website.
Thank you,
Giuseppe Citerio (SYNAPSE-ICU Principal Investigator)
Lara Prisco (NIC Deputy Chair and SYNAPSE-ICU Steering Committee member)
