Clinical trials: Comatose
Brain Death
Brain Death: Inflammatory Response, Apoptosis, and Endotoxin Tolerance
We hypothesized that brain death is associated with an early systemic inflammatory response, possibly combined with activation of apoptotic cell death, two events that may contribute to induce rapid organ dysfunction.
- Trial name
- NCT00615225
- Testing
- Muscle biopsy
- Where
- 3 sites in Belgium, France
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Delafontaine Hospital
Brain Injury, Coma, Cardiac Arrest (CA)
Prediction for Coma Recovery With Comaweb
The general objective of the comaScore project is to provide an external validation of the accuracy of the comaScore, a score derived from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to predict 1 year outcome of patients unresponsive to…
- Conditions
- Brain Injury, Coma, Cardiac Arrest (CA), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhages (aSAH)
- Trial name
- COMASCORE (NCT03874208)
- Testing
- MRI sequence, MRI
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 611 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
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
Lesional Coma
Imaging of the Neural Correlates of Arousal and Awareness
In last decades, several advances in the neuro-intensive management have lead to decrease mortality in Intensive Care Units. A significant morbidity remains as patients survive after a traumatic coma with uncertain quality of…
- Trial name
- IMAGINA (NCT04575454)
- Testing
- Multimodal evaluation of brain function : PET-MRI, electrophysiology, eye-tracking
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 85 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
Brain Death, Renal Failure
Understanding Family Refusal
The investigators plan a secondary data analysis of an existing dataset to examine how individual decision-making differs from family decision-making in organ donation.
- Trial name
- NCT04303624
- Testing
- Health sciences survey
- Volunteers
- 1,007 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Yale-NUS College
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
Brain Death
Non-randomized, Open-labeled, Interventional, Single Group, Proof of Concept Study With Multi-modality Approach in Cases of Brain Death Due to Traumatic Brain Injury Having Diffuse Axonal Injury
This is the proof of concept study with multi-modality approach (using intra-thecal bioactive peptides, stem cells, laser and transcranial IV laser and Median Nerve stimulation as adjuvants) in cases of brain death due to…
- Trial name
- NCT02742857
- Testing
- BQ-A Peptide Extract, Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Transcranial Laser Therapy
- Where
- India
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bioquark Inc.
Organ Finding
The Knowledge Levels and Attitudes of the People Living in Nevşehir on Organ Donation and Transplantation
In this descriptive study, the purpose was to determine the knowledge levels and attitudes of the people in Nevsehir, Turkey on organ donation.
- Trial name
- NCT02931318
- Testing
- Nevsehir
- Volunteers
- 414 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Nevsehir Public Hospital
Brain Death
Thyroxine Replacement in Organ Donors
To compare oral versus intravenous administration of thyroid hormone: 1) for reversibility of hemodynamic instability in organ donors, and, 2) the pharmacokinetics of oral vs iv thyroid administration
- Trial name
- NCT00238030
- Testing
- L-thryoxine, iv thryoxine
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 34 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's
Hepatic Failure, Hepatic Impairment
Single Dose Pharmacokinetics of Suboxone Study in Hepatic Impaired Subjects
The objective was to determine if hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection or mild to severe hepatic impairment (Child-Pugh Classes A, B, and C) altered the PK of buprenorphine, norbuprenorphine, or naloxone.
- Conditions
- Hepatic Failure, Hepatic Impairment, Chronic Hepatitis C Infection With Hepatic Coma
- Trial name
- NCT01846455
- Testing
- 2.0mg Buprenorphine/0.5mg Naloxone, Promethazine
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 43 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Indivior Inc.
Brain Death, Coma
Online Noninvasive Assessment of Human Brain Death and Deep Coma by Near-infrared Spectroscopy
This study aims to assess brain death and deep coma with the self-made near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) instrument. The investigators used the noninvasive method to monitor the Δ[HbO2] (the concentration changes in…
- Trial name
- NCT04623294
- Testing
- Oxygen supply of high-low-high procedure, Oxygen supply of low-high-low procedure
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 75 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Trauma
Effect of Family Member's Massage Therapy on the Vital Signs and Glasgow Coma Scale Score
The effect of family member's massage therapy on the Vital signs and Glasgow Coma Scale Score of hospitalized patients in Intensive Care Unit: A Triple-blinded Randomized controlled Clinical Trial Study
- Trial name
- NCT01909882
- Testing
- Massage therapy
- Where
- Iran
- Volunteers
- 180 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University
Brain Death
Neurophysiological Examination in Patients With Brain Death
This study examines muscle movements of elecromyography in adults with brain death. Half of the participants will have brain death, the other half will be healthy volunteers.
- Trial name
- NCT03262896
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Yuzuncu Yil University
Trauma, Shock, Traumatic
Discriminant Ability of the Shock Index, Modified Shock Index, and Reverse Shock Index Multiplied by the Glasgow Coma Scale on Mortality in Adult Trauma Patients: A PATOS Study
We evaluated a cohort of adult trauma patients transported to emergency departments. The first vital signs were used to calculate the SI, MSI, and rSIG.
- Conditions
- Trauma, Shock, Traumatic, Morality
- Trial name
- NCT05549986
- Testing
- Observational
- Volunteers
- 105,641 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mackay Memorial Hospital
Nurse's Role, Nurse-Patient Relations
Effect of Virtual Reality Simulation on Nursing Students' Knowledge and Skill Performance in Respiratory Physical Examination
Aim To compare the effects of immersive virtual reality (I-VR) and peer-assisted small-group practice on nursing students' knowledge, skill performance, and performance time in respiratory system physical examination.
- Conditions
- Nurse's Role, Nurse-Patient Relations, Exanimation
- Trial name
- NCT06536361
- Testing
- Virtual Reality-Based Learning Tool, Traditional Small Group Training
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 76 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Gazi University
Anoxic Coma, Cardiac Arrest (CA)
Assessment of Structural Brain Changes Related to Anoxic Coma Using High-field and Very Low Field Mobile MRI
Standard predictors of outcome after cardiac arrest (CA) have substantial limitations in terms of reliability and generalizability.
- Conditions
- Anoxic Coma, Cardiac Arrest (CA), Anoxia-Ischemia, Brain, Coma
- Trial name
- CUBE (NCT07177755)
- Testing
- High-field and very-low-field MRI acquisitions
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Toulouse
Consciousness Disorder, Coma
REsting and Stimulus-based Paradigms to Detect Organized NetworkS and Predict Emergence of Consciousness
The aim of this study is to assess the utility of advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electroencephalographic (EEG) technologies for predicting functional outcomes in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).
- Conditions
- Consciousness Disorder, Coma, Brain Injuries, Traumatic
- Trial name
- RESPONSE 2 (NCT03504709)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 79 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Brain Death
Implementation of Apnoea Test for Patients With Suspected Brain Death
This study consists of a survey created for intensive care physicians regarding their current practice of the implementation of apnoea test for patients with suspected brain death.
- Trial name
- NCT06359119
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Kiskunhalas Semmelweis Hospital the Teaching Hospital of the University of Szeged
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Patients, Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
SeeMe: Using Automated Facial Tracking to Detect Voluntary Behavior in Brain Injury
Objective: This prospective interventional study introduces "SeeMe," an automated, high-resolution computer vision platform designed to objectively quantify microscopic, auditory command-evoked movements in patients with…
- Trial name
- NCT07560631
- Testing
- SeeMe Multimodal Auditory Command Protocol
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Stony Brook University
Disorder of Consciousness, Comatose
Prognostication of Recovery in Early Disorders of Consciousness Study
The goal of this study is to determine the extent to which neuroimaging metrics (e.g., functional MRI) are associated with the current level of consciousness, and future consciousness recovery, in patients with disorders of…
- Conditions
- Disorder of Consciousness, Comatose, Coma; Prolonged, Vegetative State
- Trial name
- PREDICT (NCT07074678)
- Testing
- Functional MRI (fMRI)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania