Clinical trials: End of Life
African American Infant Sleep Beliefs and Practices
Improving the Self-Efficacy of African American Parents in Infant Supine Sleep
This is a research study of African American parents/caregivers of newborns. The purpose of this research study is to learn what type of educational materials about infant safety and safe infant sleep are most effective and…
- Trial name
- PrAAIS (NCT01707173)
- Testing
- Tailored education, Standard Education
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 735 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
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
Bladder Cancer
Immunogenic Cell Death as a Novel Mechanism of Mitomycin C Activity in Bladder Cancer
The principal objective of this study consists in the assessment of Immunogenic Cell Death (ICD) induction in neoplastic tissues derived from bladder cancer patients treated ex vivo with Mitomycin C (MMC).
- Trial name
- ICH-MIM-01 (NCT04256616)
- Testing
- This is an observational study that does not concern a direct intervention on patients and control subjects and does not interfere with the clinical management of patients.
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 110 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Clinico Humanitas
Critical Illness, Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
Advance Care Planning Evaluation in Hospitalized Elderly Patients
The purpose of the study is to inform decision-makers of the best strategies to implement advanced care planning (ACP). An advanced care plan (ACP) is a verbal or written instruction describing what kind of care an individual…
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, Congestive Heart Failure, Cirrhosis
- Trial name
- ACCEPT (NCT01362855)
- Where
- 9 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 503 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Daren K. Heyland
Sudden Cardiac Death, Cardiomyopathies
Sudden Cardiac Death - Screening Of Risk Factors
The investigators have created a way of quickly collecting information in a large scale young population regarding the presence of some severity indicators that may allow us to classify them into: seemingly "low risk" and…
- Conditions
- Sudden Cardiac Death, Cardiomyopathies, Channelopathies
- Trial name
- SCD-SOS (NCT01845909)
- Testing
- ECG and survey screening
- Where
- Portugal
- Volunteers
- 15,351 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Coimbra
End of Life
Impact of a Protocol for Announcing Decision of Withholding and Withdrawing Life-sustaining Treatments on the Stress of the Relatives in the Emergency Departments
Death is a daily reality in the emergency department. Deaths represent 0.3 to 0.5% of emergency admissions, i.e. approximately 26,000 per year for the whole of France.
- Trial name
- DISCUSS (NCT06071078)
- Testing
- Training of professionals according to the DISCUSS announcement protocol
- Where
- 9 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 538 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
Sudden Cardiac Death
Development of Algorithms to Predict Hemodynamic Instability
Hemodynamic monitoring in hospitalized patients is crucial since in clinical practice unexpected deterioration of cardiovascular function remains a serious problem and an important cause of death.
- Trial name
- NCT01262508
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Klinik für Kardiologie, Pneumologie und Angiologie