Clinical trials: Post-operative Cardiac Surgery
Congenital Heart Disease
Washed Versus Standard Blood Cell Transfusions in Pediatric Open Heart Surgery
Background: Children having open heart surgery to repair congenital heart defects demonstrate a large inflammatory response to the heart-lung machine and to surgery itself.
- Trial name
- NCT00693498
- Testing
- Standard leukoreduced irradiated blood cell transfusion, Washed leukoreduced irradiated blood cell transfusions
- Volunteers
- 162 people
- Sponsor
- University of Rochester
Bleeding, Surgical Blood Loss
Decreasing Postoperative Blood Loss by Topical vs. Intravenous Tranexamic Acid in Open Cardiac Surgery
The aim is to conduct a double-blinded single-centre randomized controlled clinical trial of application of topical dose of tranexamic acid (TA) versus the usual intravenous TA in patients undergoing cardiac surgery at the…
- Trial name
- DEPOSITION (NCT03376061)
- Testing
- Tranexamic Acid
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 97 people
- Sponsor
- Population Health Research Institute
Circulatory Perfusion Disorder, Congenital Heart Disease
Early Use of Vasopressin in Post-Fontan Management
This is an investigator initiated, prospective, single-center, double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of post-operative low dose vasopressin infusions as an early treatment of low systemic perfusion in pediatric…
- Conditions
- Circulatory Perfusion Disorder, Congenital Heart Disease, Single-ventricle
- Trial name
- VAMP (NCT03088345)
- Testing
- Vasopressin, Arginine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Medical College of Wisconsin