The general objective of the comaScore project is to provide an external validation of the accuracy of the comaScore, a score derived from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to predict 1 year outcome of patients unresponsive to simple orders after traumatic brain injury (TBI), aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhages (aSAH) and cardiac arrest (CA) in the day 7 - day 45 period post brain injury.
The general objective of the comaScore project is to provide an external validation of the accuracy of the comaScore, a score derived from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to predict 1 year outcome of patients unresponsive to simple orders after traumatic brain injury (TBI), aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhages (aSAH) and cardiac arrest (CA) in the day 7 - day 45 period post brain injury. As recent studies reported late awakeners cases, even in cardiac arrest and, in contrary, that around 10% of patients with acute brain injury remain with permanent disorders of consciousness (DOC), the need of reliable prognosis tool at the early phase, while the patient is still in the ICU, is critical. ComaScore, based on the quantitative analysis of diffusion tensor imaging, was developed from a derivation cohort of 506 patients. It is much more performing than existing tools (IMPACT, OHCA) in this respect. This study aims to prospectively validate the predictive accuracy of comaScore to predict unfavorable outcome at 1-year after the first insult, in an independent sample (external validation). Unfavorable outcome is defined as a Glascow Outcome Scale Extended (GOSE) of 1 to 3. This scale ranges from 1 to 8. Scores of 1 to 3 correspond to death, vegetative state, minimally conscious state or bedridden.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
611
An additional sequence to conventional MRI exam (Diffusion tensor imaging) lasting less than 10 min (depending on the MR scanner type and sequence used).
MRI exam
Centre Hospitalier Saint-Jean
Perpignan, France
RECRUITINGThe unfavorable outcome
The unfavorable outcome is defined as a Glascow Outcome Scale Extended (GOSE) of 1 to 3. This scale ranges from 1 to 8. Scores of 1 to 3 correspond to death, vegetative state, minimally conscious state or bedridden.
Time frame: 1 year after the initial brain injury
Time-window-specific performances of the Comascore evaluation
To assess the impact of time from brain injury to MRI allowing to calculate comaScore on the predictive accuracy of comaScore (4 periods will be determined
Time frame: day 7 to 15, day 16 to 25, day 26 to 35 or day 36 to 45
Etiology-specific performances of the Comascore evaluation after cardiac arrest
" To assess the predictive accuracy of comaScore evaluated in the day 7 - day 45 period post brain injury to predict unfavorable outcome at 1-year after the first insult in patients admitted in ICU after CA or TBI or sSAH, that remain unresponsive to simple orders at least 7 days after brain injury."
Time frame: 1 year after the initial brain injury
Etiology-specific performances of the Comascore evaluation after traumatic brain injury
" To assess the predictive accuracy of comaScore evaluated in the day 7 - day 45 period post brain injury to predict unfavorable outcome at 1-year after the first insult in patients admitted in ICU after CA or TBI or sSAH, that remain unresponsive to simple orders at least 7 days after brain injury."
Time frame: 1 year after the initial brain injury
Etiology-specific performances of the Comascore evaluation after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhages
" To assess the predictive accuracy of comaScore evaluated in the day 7 - day 45 period post brain injury to predict unfavorable outcome at 1-year after the first insult in patients admitted in ICU after CA or TBI or sSAH, that remain unresponsive to simple orders at least 7 days after brain injury."
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Time frame: 1 year after the initial brain injury
Comparison between COMASCORE and OHCA score after cardiac arrest
To test the statistical difference in predictive accuracy between comaScore evaluated in the day 7 - day 45 period post brain injury and OHCA or IMPACT or WFNS score to predict unfavorable outcome at 1-year after the first insult in patients admitted in ICU after CA or TBI or aSAH, respectively, that remain unresponsive to simple orders at least 7 days after brain injury.
Time frame: 1 year after the initial brain injury
Comparison between COMASCORE and IMPACT score after traumatic brain injury
To test the statistical difference in predictive accuracy between comaScore evaluated in the day 7 - day 45 period post brain injury and OHCA or IMPACT or WFNS score to predict unfavorable outcome at 1-year after the first insult in patients admitted in ICU after CA or TBI or aSAH, respectively, that remain unresponsive to simple orders at least 7 days after brain injury.
Time frame: 1 year after the initial brain injury
Comparison between COMASCORE and WFNS score after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhages
To test the statistical difference in predictive accuracy between comaScore evaluated in the day 7 - day 45 period post brain injury and OHCA or IMPACT or WFNS score to predict unfavorable outcome at 1-year after the first insult in patients admitted in ICU after CA or TBI or aSAH, respectively, that remain unresponsive to simple orders at least 7 days after brain injury.
Time frame: 1 year after the initial brain injury