First-in-human Trial of Home Brain Pressure Measured Using Kitea ICP Sensor, Placed During Hydrocephalus Shunt Surgery.

Last updated: June 12, 2024
Sponsor: University of Auckland, New Zealand
Overall Status: Active - Recruiting

Phase

N/A

Condition

N/A

Treatment

Kitea ICP Sensor

Clinical Study ID

NCT06402786
ADHB-10040
  • Ages > 1
  • All Genders

Study Summary

Patients with hydrocephalus have an abnormal build-up of fluid around the brain and need a tube surgically implanted to drain that fluid. Patients and their caregivers live with the constant fear that the tube will block. Warning symptoms include irritability, headaches and vomiting. Unfortunately, there is no way of telling when fluid build-up is causing a rise in brain pressure and potentially impeding blood flow to the brain (life threatening) except for a brain scan in hospital and possibly hospitalisation.

The investigators want to improve the lives of patients with hydrocephalus. They have developed a tool for parents and caregivers to monitor the pressure in the brain remotely via a sensor placed alongside the drainage tube. The device has been shown to be safe and to give reliable brain pressure readings using a large animal model (sheep). This study is a first-in-human safety study to show it is safe for patient use.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Participants with a condition requiring cerebral spinal fluid shunting who areundergoing initial shunt placement or shunt revision surgery.

  • Adults: Age > 16 years; Children: Age >1 and <15

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Adults: Unable to give informed consent

  • Paediatric: Failure to obtain assent in a cognitively competent child along withparental consent or parent unable to consent.

  • Cortical mantle < 20 mm

  • Neurologic or other condition that would prevent compliance with protocol

  • Terminal illness with expected survival < 1 year

  • Unable to participate in follow-up for 3 months (e.g., travelling overseas for anextended period)

  • Underlying medical condition that would make the participant more prone to surgicalinfections

  • Other active implanted medical devices e.g. pacemaker, cochlear implant, implantablecardioverter defibrillator, deep brain stimulation devices

  • Participants with conditions likely to require radiation therapy

Study Design

Total Participants: 20
Treatment Group(s): 1
Primary Treatment: Kitea ICP Sensor
Phase:
Study Start date:
May 27, 2024
Estimated Completion Date:
December 31, 2025

Study Description

Participants with hydrocephalus who are at risk of repeated bouts of hospitalisation associated with shunt failures and therefore likely to benefit from being able to monitor intracranial pressure will be recruited. 10 adult (>16 years) and 10 children (1-15 years) participants will be recruited in a staggered fashion to allow appropriate evaluation of outcomes. Participants will be recruited when they present to hospital requiring a shunt placement (or revision). At the same time as this surgery, the Kitea Sensor will be placed in the brain near the shunt. Participants will be asked to make measurements of their brain pressure at home using the Kitea ICP System for the next 3 months. Aside from the placement of the Kitea Sensor and home measurements of ICP using the Kitea ICP system, all clinical interventions will be standard of care.

Connect with a study center

  • Auckland City Hospital

    Auckland,
    New Zealand

    Active - Recruiting

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