Clinical trials: Brain-dead Organ Donors
Brain Death, Respiration, Artificial
Miniature In-line Respirator
This first-in-human pilot study will test an investigational miniature breathing device called the Hope inVent. The device is a small, single-use, in-line respirator that connects to a breathing tube and uses compressed oxygen to…
- Trial name
- NCT07768215
- Testing
- Hope inVent
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 5 people
- Sponsor
- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Tissue Donors
Evaluation of Post-traumatic Stress Among the Nearest Relatives of Brain-dead Organ Donors
The goal is to compare post tramautic stress between the nearest relatives of brain-dead patients who are organ donor to those of brain-dead patients who are not organ donors for medical, legal or opposition reasons.
- Conditions
- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Tissue Donors, Tissue and Organ Procurement
- Trial name
- NCT01214018
- Testing
- Questionnaires and interview
- Where
- 4 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 91 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes
Prone Position, Donors
Prone vs Supine Position in Potential Organ Donors: Multicenter Clinical Trial
Background and justification: In Argentina, 9,650 people are on the organ transplant waiting list, including 290 who require a lung transplant.
- Conditions
- Prone Position, Donors, Lung Procurement, Tissue Donors
- Trial name
- PRODONAR (NCT07251777)
- Testing
- Prone position
- Where
- Argentina
- Volunteers
- 254 people
- Sponsor
- Hospital de Alta Complejidad del Bicentenario Esteban Echeverría
Death, Brain
ICU Management of Brain-Dead Donors Before Multi-Organ Procurement and Factors Associated With the Number of Organs Retrieved
Solid organ transplantation is the treatment of choice for end stage organ failure to improve patients' quality of life and survival.
- Trial name
- DONOR-OBS (NCT06768515)
- Testing
- No interventtion
- Where
- 2 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people
- Sponsor
- Société Française d'Anesthésie et de Réanimation
Brain Death, Organ Donation
Methods of Confirmation of Brain Death
The purpose of this study is to describe the use of methods confirming brain death in the real clinical practice of the transplant program in the Czech Republic.
- Trial name
- NCT04734574
- Where
- Czechia
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- Brno University Hospital
Brain Damage Due to Hypoxia, Organ Donors
Endothelial Glycocalyx Damage in Brain Death Organ Donors
The study aims the assessment of endothelial glycocalyx (EG) degradation in deceased organ donors. There is a lack of organs for the transplantation program.
- Conditions
- Brain Damage Due to Hypoxia, Organ Donors, Organ Transplant Failure or Rejection
- Trial name
- NCT05609123
- Testing
- Endothelial glycocalyx damage assessment
- Where
- Czechia
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital Hradec Kralove
Organ Donor, Brain Death
Therapeutic Hypothermia in "Expanded Criteria" Brain-dead Donors and Kidney-graft Function
Each year, only one third of patients registered on the waiting list receive a kidney transplant. Numerous paths are being explored with the aim of reversing this shortage.
- Conditions
- Organ Donor, Brain Death, Kidney Transplant; Complications, Critical Illness
- Trial name
- HYPOREME (NCT03098706)
- Testing
- Procedure control: normothermia, Procedure active
- Where
- 54 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 532 people
- Sponsor
- Nantes University Hospital
Brain Dead Organ Donors
Evaluation of the Efficacy and Safety of Levothyroxine in Brain Death Organ Donors: a Randomized Controled Trial
The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of a randomized controlled trial comparing levothyroxine to placebo in neurologically deceased donors
- Trial name
- ECHOT4 (NCT02211053)
- Testing
- Levothyroxine
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 15 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Integre Universitaire de Sante et Services Sociaux du Nord de l'ile de Montreal
Mechanical Ventilation
Protective Ventilatory Strategy in Potential Organ Donors
The aim of the study is to verify if a "PROTECTIVE" ventilatory strategy (low tidal volume and high PEEP, application of CPAP during the apnea test and recruitment maneuvers), improves lung function and increases the number of…
- Trial name
- NCT00260676
- Testing
- change ventilation
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- University of Turin, Italy
Brain Death, Liver Disease
Pre-recovery Bedside Liver Biopsy in Brain Death Organ Donors
This study's objective is to obtain preliminary data to test the hypotheses that percutaneous liver biopsy in brain death donors is safe and provides reliable histological information.
- Trial name
- PPB (NCT01810640)
- Testing
- Percutaneous Liver Biopsy
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 6 people
- Sponsor
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Organ Transplant
DCD IIT: Evaluating the Safety of Utilizing Donor Hearts From Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD) Donors
The purpose the research is to evaluate whether patients who receive a Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) heart for cardiac transplantation using either normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) or direct procurement and…
- Trial name
- NCT05462041
- Testing
- DBD Donor Heart Transplantation, DCD Donor Heart Transplantation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Brain Death, Organ Donors
Naloxone for Optimizing Hypoxemia Of Lung Donors
Brain-dead patients who provide authorization for organ donation will be randomized to naloxone or placebo if baseline arterial blood gas (ABG) after initiation of OPO (Organ Procurement Organization) management reveals…
- Conditions
- Brain Death, Organ Donors, Lung Transplantation
- Trial name
- NO-HOLDS (NCT02581111)
- Testing
- Naloxone, Normal saline
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 199 people
- Sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
Brain Injury, Coma
Brain Death and Organ Donation in Tunisian Intensive Care Units
The goal of this observational study was to identify factors associated with the progression to brain death in critically ill patients with severe brain injuries in Tunisian intensive care units (ICUs).
- Conditions
- Brain Injury, Coma, Organ Transplants
- Trial name
- BDOD-TN (NCT06948669)
- Where
- Tunisia
- Volunteers
- 104 people
- Sponsor
- Faculty of Medicine, Sousse
Alternative Method of Apnea Test
Comparison of Two Strategies to Realize Apnea Test for the Diagnostic of Brain Death in Potential Organ Donors (CPAPNEE STUDY)
Clinical diagnostic of brain death requires a non-reactive coma, absence of brain stem reflex, and absence of spontaneous breathing.
- Trial name
- NCT01649726
- Testing
- Apnea test - control, Apnea test - CPAP
- Where
- 13 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 208 people
- Sponsor
- Poitiers University Hospital
Brain Death, Kidney Transplantation
Cyclosporine A Pretreatment and Kidney Graft Function
Organ donors included in the study are randomized to a control group or an intervention group receiving 2.5 mg/kg of cyclosporine A before organ procurement.
- Trial name
- Cis-A-Rein (NCT02907554)
- Testing
- cyclosporine A
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 648 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
Unallocated Pancreas Organs
Expanding Pancreas Donor Pool by Evaluation of Unallocated Organs After Brain Death - The EXPLORE Study
Pancreas graft quality directly affects morbidity and mortality rates after pancreas transplantation (PTx). The criteria for pancreas graft allocation are restricted, which has decreased the number of available organs.
- Trial name
- NCT04127266
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Dr. A. Mehrabi
Brain Death
Organ Donor Tissue Oxygen Saturation as a Predictor of Number of Organs to Transplant Per Donor
The objective of this study is to quantify the association between tissue oxygen saturation (StO2) during the donor management phase of the Death by Neurological Criteria (DNC) organ donor and the number of organs transplanted…
- Trial name
- NCT01819116
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- The Cleveland Clinic
Organ Transplantation
Remote Ischemic Preconditioning in Neurological Death Organ Donors
The purpose of this study is to determine whether application of lower limb remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) after determination of brain death improves donor stability, organ quality, organ yield, and early post transplant…
- Trial name
- RIPNOD (NCT01515072)
- Testing
- RIPC (Remote Ischemic Preconditioning)
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 321 people
- Sponsor
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Brain Death, Organ Donation
Deceased Organ Donor Interventions to Protect Kidney Graft Function
To protect kidney function during the transplantation process by comparing mild hypothermia in the deceased organ donor before organs are recovered and pulsatile perfusion of the kidney after recovery and prior to transplantation.
- Conditions
- Brain Death, Organ Donation, Organ Transplant Failure or Rejection, Delayed Graft Function
- Trial name
- NCT02525510
- Testing
- Pump Eligible - Normothermia - Pump Both Kidneys, Pump Eligible - Hypothermia and Pump Right Kidney, Pump Eligible - Hypothermia and Pump Left Kidney
- Where
- 7 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,427 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Liver Failure, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
Remote Ischemic Conditioning (RIC) in Recipients of Brain Death Donor Livers - A Feasibility and Safety Study
This study will assess the feasibility of lower limb-ischemia induced Remote Ischemic Conditioning (RIC) in the perioperative period before, during, and after Orthotopic Liver Transplantation (OLT).
- Trial name
- NCT02635347
- Testing
- Remote Ischemic Conditioning (RIC), Pneumatic tourniquet
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 31 people
- Sponsor
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey