Clinical trials: Vertebral Artery Injury
Carotid Artery Injuries, Traumatic Injury
Use of 81 vs 325mg of ASA in Treatment of BCVI
Blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI), or injury to the carotid and vertebral arteries, occurs in 1-3% of blunt traumas, often as a result of injury to the head, neck, or chest.
- Conditions
- Carotid Artery Injuries, Traumatic Injury, Vertebral Artery Injury
- Trial name
- NCT06383650
- Testing
- Acetylsalicylic Acid
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- London Health Sciences Centre
Carotid Artery Injury, Vertebral Artery Injury
Anticoagulation in Blunt Cerebrovascular Injuries
Originally thought to be a rare occurrence, BCVI are now diagnosed in approximately 1% of blunt trauma patients. Initially BCVI were thought to have unavoidable devastating neurologic outcomes.
- Trial name
- NCT00494156
- Testing
- heparin, aspirin and clopidogrel
- Where
- United States
- Sponsor
- C. Clay Cothren, MD