Newsletter
Issue 8 Winter 2007
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FUNDING
SECURED - FULL STEAM AHEAD
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In December 2006, the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme, which is part of the UK National Health Service Research & Development Programme, announced that it would fund the international CRASH-2 trial until its completion in 2010. The Clinical Trials Board which assessed the CRASH-2 application as part of its highly competitive peer reviewed funding round, congratulated the trial collaborators on their success. The HTA funding will enable the trial to expand to more hospitals and more countries ensuring that our recruitment target of 20,000 patients is achieved. Already, applications from hospitals to join the CRASH-2 trial have reached a new peak with many new hospitals beginning to recruit in January and February and hundreds more waiting to get started. |
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| More good news for the CRASH-2 trial, at least for collaborating hospitals in the UK, was the December 2006 amendment to the UK's Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations. The amendment allows unconscious patients in emergency situations to be enrolled in clinical trials without prior consent provided that this has been approved by the appropriate ethics committee – as is the case in the CRASH-2 trial. The amendment had been anxiously awaited by emergency care researchers in the UK since the regulations were changed in 2004 making it much harder to enrol seriously injured patients in emergency situations. Further details of the amendment are available in a BMJ editorial by Haleema Shakur. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/334/7586/165 | |
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You
can now listen to audio broadcasts of talks on clinical trial related subjects
by eminent speakers on the CRASH2 website. On the left hand column click
on AUDIO BROADCASTS
and then click on the icon next to each speaker. You can also
download some talks as PowerPoint presentations and pdf-files.
Current contributors include Sir Iain Chalmers, Editor of the James Lind Library, UK, and Professor Salim Yusuf, Professor of Medicine at McMaster University, Hamilton Health Sciences, Canada. |
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I
started working with the Trials Co-ordinating Centre in December 2006. Prior
to this I have gained a degree in Biology and have experience working in
a co-ordination unit as a specialist administrator. However, I am excited
to be involved in an international clinical trial. Kate James, Trials assistant |
 Patient recruitment approaching 4,000 |
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OUT OF ORDER? Q. Why do I have
to use treatment packs in sequence order? Q. What if I
accidentally start with the last pack in a box? Q. I have accidentally
skipped a pack – what should I do? Q. The next pack
was found to be damaged when opened or cannot be found? |
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first patient
new
ethics approvals ARGENTINA
COLOMBIA
INDIA
INDONESIA
NIGERIA
PERU
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image: Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
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| special congratulations | |
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100 randomised patients Surakrant
Yutthakasemsunt Oluwole
Olayemi Olaomi Moch
Dwikoryanto |
50 randomised patients Wu
Hoong Chhang Edward
Komolafe Fatos
Olldashi |
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TRAUMA CARE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP We invite applications from intelligent, industrious and imaginative clinicians with experience of trauma care in low and middle income countries to join an ambitious programme of trauma care research. Watch out for more details in the trial website or at www.Lshtm.ac.uk |
| crash 2 round the world |
 Clínica De Especilidades Medicas “San Gregorio“, with Rubén Camacho as PI have recently received their trial materials and hope to start randomisation very soon. Pablo Perel went to visit Ecuador. |
 In January Tamar Gogichaishvili, our Georgia National Co-ordinator, presented the trial in the 2nd International Neurosurgical Winter Meeting in Zermatt, Switzerland, and received a certificate for an “outstanding presentation”. |
 Many congratulations to Carolina Goméz Builes who looks after the data in several Colombian hospitals, for her recent marriage to Fede. |
