We are thrilled to unveil our brand-new website, dedicated to the Space Shield trial! This platform will be your go-to source for updates, information, and progress about our exciting clinical trial.​

Latest News:

• Last Friday (January 10, 2025), we submitted our second application to the ethical committee, marking another critical step in our journey. 📄
• We aim to start the trial soon, with March 2025 as our hopeful launch date. 🚀​
• To help explain the innovative Space Shield intervention, we are currently producing a detailed instructional video. Stay tuned for its release! 🎥​

A Collaborative Effort: Our trial brings together the expertise of multiple centers across Switzerland. In addition to Bern, six other centers are participating: Aarau, Basel, Geneva, Lugano, Lucerne, and St. Gallen. 🤝​

About the Space Shield Trial: The Space Shield trial is a randomized-controlled multicenter phase III study that aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a space-expanding shield in decompressive hemicraniectomy (DCE) for stroke. 🧠 Our objective is to analyze clinical and radiological outcomes of a single-stage DCE using a space shield, comparing it to the standard two-stage approach of DCE followed by cranioplasty (CP).​

We hypothesize that the single-stage strategy with the space-expanding shield will be non-inferior to the current standard treatment regarding functional outcomes.

Thank you for visiting our website and supporting this groundbreaking initiative! We are excited to share our journey with you.