BrainIT2: 2003-2006

FP5 QLGT-2002-00160 Infrastuctures Programme - Database Creation and Testing Feasibility of IT Methods.

The EU BrainIT Team.

Project Overview

Following directly on from the First EU Project, This 4 year EU funded project achieved the following aims:

  1. We have developed new software methods including several new tools for collection of the BrainIT core dataset.

  2. We have recruited new centres into the BrainIT network acquiring patient data from 22 Neuro intensive care centres from 11 EU countries.

  3. We have also successfully completed a prospective data collection of data from 262 patients using these new tools and the data is validated and accessible from our web-service.

Click Here to Download the BrainIT Dataset Main Paper

Click Here to Download the BrainIT Dataset Definition Document

Publications arising from this project include:

  1. Neuman J, Chambers I, Citerio G, Enblad P, Gregson B, Howells T, Mattern J, Nilsson P, Piper I, Ragauskas A, Sahuquillo J, Yau H, Kiening K on Behalf of the BrainIT Group. The use of hyperventilation therapy after Brain Injury in Europe: An analysis of the BrainIT database. Intensive Care Medicine 2008; S00134-008-1123-7

  2. Shaw M, Piper I, Daley M. Relationship of a cerebral autoregulatory index with outcome in head injured patients, Acta Neurochir Suppl (2008) 102: 33–36

  3. Chambers I, Gregson B, Citerio G, Enblad E, Howells T, Kiening K, Mattern J, Nilsson P & Piper I, Ragauskas A, Sahuquillo J, Yau YH on behalf of the BrainIT Group. BrainIT collaborative network: analyses from a high time-resolution dataset of head injured patients. Acta Neurochir Suppl (2008) 102: 223–227

  4. Shaw M, Piper I. Pilot application of fractal characterisation and its response to change on physiological wave forms. Acta Neurochir Suppl (2008) 102: 229–233

  5. Shaw M, Piper I Chambers I, Citerio G, Enblad P, Gregson B, Howells T, Kiening K, Mattern J, Nilsson P, Ragauskas A, Sauquillo J, Yau YH on behalf of the BrainIT Group (www.brainit.org). The brain monitoring with Information Technology (BrainIT) collaborative network: data validation results. Acta Neurochir Suppl (2008) 102: 217–221

  6. Piper I on Behalf of BrainIT Group. Not if but when; no longer why but how. Crit Care. 2007;11

  7. Mitchell P, Gregson B, Piper I, Ceterio G, Mendelow AD, Chambers IR. Blood pressure in head injured patients J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2007;78 399-402

  8. Chambers IR, Barnes J, Piper I, Citerio G, Enblad P, Howells T et al. BrainIT - a transnational head injury monitoring research network. In: Hoff J, Keep R, Xi G, Hua Y editors. Brain Edema XIII; 2006; Ann Arbor, Michigan: Acta Neurochirugica Sup 96:, Springer Verlag; 2006

  9. Nilsson P, Piper I, Citerio G, Chambers I, Contant C, Enblad P, Fiddes H, Howells T, Kiening K and Yau YH for the BrainIT Group. The BrainIT Group: concept and current status 2004 Acta Neurochir (2005) [Suppl] 95: 33–37

  10. Kiening K, Schoening W, Unterberg A, Stover J, Citerio G, Enblad P, Nilsson P and the Brain-IT Group. Assessment of the relationship between age and continuous intracranial compliance Acta Neurochir (2005) [Suppl] 95: 293–297

  11. Barnes J, Chambers I, Piper I, Citerio G, Contant C, Enblad P, Fiddes H, Howells T, Kiening K, Nilsson P, and Yau for the BrainIT Group. Accurate data collection for head injury monitoring studies: a data validation methodology. Acta Neurochir (2005) [Suppl] 95: 39–41

Photo 1: PDA Device for Entering BrainIT Coredata.

Photo 2: Web Client Software for Entering BrainIT Coredata.

Photo 3: Odin Software (Tim Howells-Uppsala) for Browsing BrainIT Coredata.

Photo 4: Odin Software (Tim Howells-Uppsala) for Showing Burden of ICP Insults.

Photo 5: BrainIT Data Disc (Latest Version on FTP Site).