Clinical trials: Coma, active
Consciousness Disorders
Measuring Brain Complexity to Detect and Predict Recovery of Consciousness in the ICU
Disorders of consciousness (DoC) caused by severe brain injury affect millions of people worldwide each year. A patient's level of consciousness in the intensive care unit (ICU) significantly impacts the recovery from disability…
- Trial name
- COMPASS (NCT06568536)
- Testing
- Repeated behavioral assessments, functional electroencephalography and brain imagery, TMS-EEG
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Traumatic Brain Injury, Intracerebral Haemorrhage
The EBC Recovery Study
The purpose of this research study to find out if clinically unconscious acute brain injury patients that show brain activation to music and language on electroencephalogram (EEG) (bedside test) have better outcomes and wake up…
- Conditions
- Traumatic Brain Injury, Intracerebral Haemorrhage, Subarachnoid Haemorrhagic Stroke
- Trial name
- NCT04712591
- Testing
- Auditory stimuli
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Miami
Disorders of Consciousness Due to Severe Brain Injury, Minimally Conscious State
Assessment of Consciousness With CRS-R and SECONDs
Accurately determining the level of consciousness in patients with severe brain injury is essential for treatment planning, prognosis, and ethical decision-making.
- Conditions
- Disorders of Consciousness Due to Severe Brain Injury, Minimally Conscious State, Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome
- Trial name
- AssessConsc (NCT07456020)
- Testing
- Simplified Evaluation of CONsciousness Disorders (SECONDs), Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R)
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 110 people
- Sponsor
- BDH-Klinik Hessisch Oldendorf
Consciousness Disorders, Disorders of Consciousness Due to Severe Brain Injury
Promoting Recovery After Brain Injury Using Focused Ultrasound
The overall aim of this study is to develop an intervention that can help recovery in patients surviving severe brain injury but failing to fully recover.
- Trial name
- ReBOUND (NCT07277309)
- Testing
- Low-intensity focused ultrasound
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 36 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Exanimation, Diagnostic Ultrasound
Palpatory and Ultrasonographic Assessment of Tissue Compressibility: Validation and Learning Effects in Phantom Models
This validation study compares clinical palpation and ultrasonographic measurements of tissue compressibility using standardized phantom models.
- Conditions
- Exanimation, Diagnostic Ultrasound, Palpation
- Trial name
- NCT07386782
- Testing
- Ultrasonographic Compression Measurment and Palpation of Standardized Phantom Models
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern
Disorders of Consciousness, Vegetative State
Effectiveness of tTIs for Improving Consciousness in Patients With DoC
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a new type of brain stimulation called theta-burst patterned temporal interference stimulation (tTIs) works to improve awareness in people with disorders of consciousness (DoC).
- Conditions
- Disorders of Consciousness, Vegetative State, Minimally Conscious State
- Trial name
- NCT07539740
- Testing
- Theta-burst Patterned Temporal Interference Stimulation (tTIs)
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 136 people
- Sponsor
- Zhujiang Hospital
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)
Cardiac Arrest
Neuroprognostication Bias: A Collaboration to Reduce the Impact of Self-fulfilling Prophecy in Cardiac ARrEst
Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States. Mortality rates of cardiac arrest range from 60-85%, and approximately 80% of survivors are initially comatose.
- Trial name
- SPARE (NCT03261089)
- Where
- 8 sites in United States, Brazil
- Volunteers
- 600 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
Median Nerve, Coma
The Safety and Efficacy of Median Nerve Electrical Stimulation for Improving Neurological Function Prognosis in Patients With Cardiac Arrest
Median nerve stimulation (MNS), a non-invasive brain stimulation technique, has been widely adopted in clinical arousal therapies and multiple clinical investigations have attested to the efficacy of this technique; nevertheless…
- Conditions
- Median Nerve, Coma, Post Cardiac Arrest Brain Injury
- Trial name
- NCT06696690
- Testing
- MNS
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 400 people
- Sponsor
- Tang Ziren
Infarction, Brain
CT-Angiography Versus Angiogram as Ancillary Tests in the Determination of Death by Neurologic Criteria
Diagnostic performance of a novel protocol for computed tomography-angiography, as ancillary test in the determination of complete cerebral infarction, in comparison to four vessel angiography.
- Trial name
- Tadaa (NCT07341490)
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Region Stockholm
Disorders of Consciousness Due to Severe Brain Injury
Consciousness Prognosis Evaluation Using Olfactory Stimulations in Comatose Patients)
The goal of this observational study is to determine whether the clinical response to olfactory stimulation (known as the "sniff" response) can help predict 3-month neurological outcomes in ICU patients with persistent disorders…
- Trial name
- CEOS (NCT07127224)
- Testing
- Olfactory stimulation
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 96 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier St Anne
Disorder of Consciousness, Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome
Auditory Processing in DOC Patients
This prospective observational study investigates whether electroencephalography (EEG) can improve the differentiation between unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) and minimally conscious state (MCS) in patients with severe…
- Conditions
- Disorder of Consciousness, Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome, Minimally Conscious State
- Trial name
- AUD-DOC (NCT07455682)
- Testing
- Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R), Electroencephalography (EEG)
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 42 people
- Sponsor
- BDH-Klinik Hessisch Oldendorf
Disorders of Consciousness Due to Severe Brain Injury, Disorders of Consciousness
fNIRS for Disorders of Consciousness
The goal of this observational study is to learn whether functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) can measure brain activity in healthy adults and in people with disorders of consciousness (DoC) in the neuro-intensive care…
- Conditions
- Disorders of Consciousness Due to Severe Brain Injury, Disorders of Consciousness, Coma, Minimally Conscious State
- Trial name
- NCT07485361
- Testing
- Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Monitoring
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 55 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Hemorrhagic Stroke, Intracerebral, Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (SAH)
AI-based Algorithm Development for Improved Diagnostics in the Intensive Care and Acute Stroke Setting Using Electroencephalography
The goal of this observational study is to develop and validate artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that use subhairline EEG (a simplified EEG patch placed on the forehead and behind the ears) to predict neurological outcome…
- Conditions
- Hemorrhagic Stroke, Intracerebral, Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (SAH), Postanoxic Coma
- Trial name
- SMART-EEG (NCT07886957)
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 825 people
- Sponsor
- Academisch Medisch Centrum - Universiteit van Amsterdam (AMC-UvA)
Post-Cardiac Arrest Syndrome
Xenon for Neuroprotection During Post-Cardiac Arrest Syndrome in Comatose Survivors of an Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest
XePOHCAS: Prospective, randomized, multicenter interventional trial in adult subjects with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest comparing treatment with standard-of-care post-cardiac arrest intensive care (which is targeted temperature…
- Trial name
- XePOHCAS (NCT03176186)
- Testing
- Xenon
- Where
- 10 sites in United States, Denmark
- Volunteers
- 1,436 people
- Sponsor
- Invero Pharma, Inc.
Status Epilepticus, Coma
Rapid-Response EEG in Children With Suspected Status Epilepticus
Seizures are common in children (~350 per 100,000 patients per year) and require immediate medical attention. If the seizure is prolonged (> 5 minutes) it is called status epilepticus and delayed treatment leads to higher risk in…
- Trial name
- RECS (NCT06564662)
- Testing
- Rapid Response EEG
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital at Montefiore
Organ Transplant Failure or Rejection, Brain Death
Calcineurin Inhibitor in NEuRoloGically Deceased Donors to Decrease Kidney delaYed Graft Function (CINERGY)
The investigators hypothesize that preconditioning neurologically deceased organ donors with the calcineurin inhibitor tacrolimus will improve short and long-term transplant survival without causing harm.
- Conditions
- Organ Transplant Failure or Rejection, Brain Death, Ischemic Reperfusion Injury
- Trial name
- CINERGY (NCT05148715)
- Testing
- Tacrolimus
- Where
- 9 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 414 people
- Sponsor
- Université de Sherbrooke
Traumatic Brain Injury
Sodium Lactate in Severe TBI
This is a safety phase 2 clinical trial of intravenous infusion of sodium lactate in patients with severe TBI. This study is intended for patients in the acute setting in an intensive care unit at centers that have been selected…
- Trial name
- NCT06701760
- Testing
- Sodium Lactate
- Volunteers
- 264 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
Neurocritical Care, Traumatic Brain Injury
Safety and Efficacy of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery in Neurocritical Care
Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) is a strategy of perioperative management aimed to accelerate the rehabilitation of patients through various optimized perioperative managements as well as ongoing adherence to a…
- Conditions
- Neurocritical Care, Traumatic Brain Injury, Cerebrovascular Disease, Moderate or Severe Coma
- Trial name
- NCT06241482
- Testing
- Enhanced recovery after surgery, Conventional therapy
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Shanghai 6th People's Hospital
Coma, Disorders of Consciousness
Recovery Trajectory for Coma and Disorders of Consciousness
This study aims to better understand recovery after coma caused by serious neurologic illness or injury. Patients who are unconscious (in a coma or disorder of consciousness) due to conditions such as stroke, cardiac arrest…
- Conditions
- Coma, Disorders of Consciousness, Cardiac Arrest (CA), Traumatic Brain Injuries
- Trial name
- Coma Cohort (NCT07614074)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 2,000 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco