Nervous System Diseases
Conditions
Interventions
trans cranial doppler done by us probe
Sponsors
Riham naser saied sherif
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Adult patients 18 -60 years of age admitted to ICU. 2. Patients manifesting clinically with sepsis or septic shock state and admitted to ICU within 24 hours of sepsis diagnosis. 3. Patients with Glasgow coma scale =13.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Pregnancy 2. Abnormal brain pathology at CT Brain: intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), stroke, hydrocephalous, brain tumor. 3. Patients with other metabolic causes of encephalopathy: uremic encephalopathy, hepatic encephalopathy, hypoglycemia. 4. Electrolyte imbalance e.g., hyponatremia, hypernatremia, hypokalemia. 5. CNS infection e.g., meningitis and encephalitis 6. Patients with severe carotid stenosis > 70%. 7. Patients on sedation, alcoholic, or drug toxicity that can affect consciousness. 8. Patients with psychiatric disorders e.g: Alzheimer-dementia.. etc
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Assessment of the correlation between serial transcranial doppler (TCD) and incidence of sepsis-associated encephalopathy in patients with septic shock. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Assessment of the correlation between the TCD parameters in septic shock and Length of ICU stay and in-hospital mortality rates. | — |
Countries
Egypt
Contacts
Public ContactHala Mohamed Koptan
Lecturer of Anesthesia Intensive Care and Pain Management at Menofia faculty of medecine
Outcome results
None listed