RAMPART Seizure Medication Study Ending Enrollment

CINCINNATI—The University of Cincinnati (UC) Department of Emergency Medicine has completed its participation in the clinical research study "Rapid Anticonvulsant Medications Prior to Arrival Trial” (RAMPART). The national trial reached its enrollment target Friday, Jan. 14, and has stopped enrolling patients across the country.
 
UC began enrollment in RAMPART June 2009, working with fire/EMS departments in Cincinnati, Blue Ash, Forest Park and Green Township in Ohio, and in Florence and Independence in Kentucky. RAMPART was designed to study whether anti-seizure medications given as a shot in the muscle were just as effective as anti-seizure medications given by intravenous injection (IV), the current protocol.

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