Issue 22
N E W S L E T T E R
March 2001
The Largest Trial in Head Injury Ever

A.Z. Kliena Hospital
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Arrowe Park Hospital
Batticaloa General Hospital
Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
Blackburn Royal Infirmary
Bromley Hospital
Bury General Hospital
Centre Hospitalier Regional de Namur
Cheltenham General Hospital
City Hospital
Clinica Las Americas
Colchester General Hospital
Countess of Chester Hospital
Doncaster Royal Infirmary
Eastbourne District General Hospital
Ernst Moritz Arndt University 
Furness General Hospital
Harrogate District Hospital
Hope Hospital
Hospital of Jolimont
Hospital Pribram
Hospital University Science Malaysia
KAT Hospital of Athens
Lagos University Teaching Hospital
Masaryk Hospital
Mataria Teaching Hospital

 Belgium
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Sri Lanka
United Kingdom
United Kingdom 
United Kingdom 
United Kingdom 
Belgium
United Kingdom
United Kingdom 
Colombia
United Kingdom
United Kingdom 
United Kingdom 
United Kingdom 
Germany
United Kingdom
United Kingdom 
United Kingdom 
Belgium
Czech Republic
Malaysia
Greece 
Nigeria 
Czech Republic
Egypt
9
8
1
33
49
14
1
12
132
13
2
24
20
8
2
21
5
11
1
92
4
7
19
3
4
6
3		 . Medway Maritime Hospital 
National Hospital of Sri Lanka 
National Neuroscience Institute 
Ninewells Hospital and Medical School 
North Manchester General Hospital 
Northern General Hospital 
Princess Alexandra Hospital 
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham 
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital 
Reimann Hospital 
Research Institute for 
Special Surgery and Trauma 
Royal Albert Edward Infirmary 
Royal Bolton Hospital 
Royal Liverpool University Hospital 
Royal Oldham Hospital 
Selly Oak Hospital 
Spitalul Clinic De Urgenta Bucaresti 
St James's University Hospital 
Stepping Hill Hospital 
Suez Canal University 
Trafford General Hospital 
Trauma Centre - Virgen Del Rocio 
Tygerberg Academic Hospital 
University Hospital of Zurich 
Univerzity Karlovy Neurochirurgicka Klinika 
Wentworth Hospital 
Whiston Hospital 

United Kingdom
Sri Lanka
Singapore
United Kingdom 
United Kingdom 
United Kingdom 
United Kingdom 
United Kingdom 
United Kingdom 
Slovakia 

Czech Republic 
United Kingdom 
United Kingdom 
United Kingdom 
United Kingdom 
United Kingdom 
Romania 
Eire 
United Kingdom 
Egypt 
United Kingdom 
Spain 
South Africa 
Switzerland 
Czech Republic 
South Africa 
United Kingdom 

 4
39
2
5
57
13
7
8
10
25

201
14
29
9
14
27
4
32
18
7
19
29
33
38
1
55
33
...

Seasons are changing and much is happening within the CRASH Trial.  More hospitals and countries have obtained ethics committee approval: 

In Argentina we have five new centres: Karina Surt at Hospital Escuela, Luis Camputaro at Hospital Italiano, Gustavo Piñero at Hospital Municipal “Dr Leonidas Lucero” and Gustavo Trócolli at José Penna Hospital, as well as Ghana – Dr Nii Andrews at Narh-Bita Hospital and in New Zealand Keith Hickling at Dunedin Hospital.

In the UK we have five new hospitals who have recently obtained ethical approval – Bill Bailey at Chesterfield & North Derbyshire Royal Hospital, Pru Hardy and Laurence Watkins at the Institute of Neurology, Nikki Brown and Yash Gupta at King George Hospital, Geraint Evans and Shirleen Hughes at Withybush General Hospital and Steve Chambers and Mandy Grocutt at Worthing Hospital.  We are looking forward to hearing about patients being enrolled at these hospitals.

New collaborating centres to randomise patients, who have got off to a fantastic start with speedy recruitment, include:
Hussain Khamis in Mataria Teaching Hospital and Hesham El-Sayed in Suez Canal University, both in Egypt, Professor Adeyemi-Doro in Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, Laura Balica and Adrian Cristescu at Spitalul Clinic De Urgenta Bucaresti, Romania.

Centres who are recruiting extremely well in the UK include Tony Bleetman & Shiela Pantrini at Birmingham Heartlands, Sam Eljamel at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Alan Pinto & Diane Lee at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Sarah Graham & Sandra Bathgate at Whiston Hospital. 

Bennie Hartzenberg at Tygerberg Academic Hospital and Naren Nathoo & Sipho Khumalo at Wentworth in South Africa, Jafri Abdullah at Hospital University Science Malaysia and above all Guy Mazairac from Centre Hospitalier Regional De Namur, Belgium and Petr Svoboda & Jiri Ochmann at the Research Institute for Special Surgery and Trauma in Czech Republic - recruitment has been fantastic in all these centres.
 





Thank you all for your continuing support and dedication to the CRASH Trial!

Nin Ritchie, MRC CRASH Trial Manager
CRASH Co-ordinating Centre, LSHTM, 49-51 Bedford Square, LONDON WC1B 3DP
Tel:+44(0)20 7299 4684     Fax:+44(0)20 7299 4663 
email: CRASH@lshtm.ac.uk     www.crash.lshtm.ac.uk