Clinical trials: sponsored by Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Alzheimer Disease, Agitation
Nabilone for Agitation Blinded Intervention Trial
This study will look at whether nabilone is an effective treatment for agitation in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Agitation is highly prevalent in patients with AD and is one of the most distressing and challenging-to-treat…
- Trial name
- NAB-IT (NCT04516057)
- Testing
- Nabilone
- Where
- 8 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 112 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder, Family Accommodation
Family Accommodation Reduction in Adult Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if offering a Family Accommodation Reduction (FAR) intervention to family members before OCD patients start CBT can improve CBT outcomes.
- Conditions
- Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder, Family Accommodation, OCD, CBT
- Trial name
- FAR (NCT07912177)
- Testing
- Family Accommodation Reduction, Family Psychoeducation
- Where
- 2 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 480 people
- Sponsor
- Karen Rowa
Necrotizing Enterocolitis
RIC-NEC Randomized Controlled Trial
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a serious intestinal disease of preterm and term neonates which remains a major cause of intestinal failure, and an unsolved clinical challenge in pediatrics.
- Trial name
- RIC-NEC (NCT05279664)
- Testing
- Remote ischemic conditioning (RIC) + Standard of Care for NEC, Standard of Care for NEC
- Where
- 4 sites in United States, Canada
- Volunteers
- 86 people
- Sponsor
- The Hospital for Sick Children
Suicide Prevention, Social Media Users
Exploring The Effect of TikTok Trigger Warnings in a Clinical Sample of Youth at Risk of Suicide
Rates of suicide among Canadian youth have risen steadily over the past two decades, alongside rapid growth in social media use-especially TikTok.
- Trial name
- NCT07913854
- Testing
- Trigger Warning
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 82 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Hemodialysis, Kidney Disease, End-Stage
Cycling During Dialysis: A Feasibility and Safety Study
People who receive hemodialysis sit for about 4 hours, three times a week, and often feel tired and weak. Exercise can help, but many patients find it hard to exercise on their own.
- Conditions
- Hemodialysis, Kidney Disease, End-Stage, Fatigue
- Trial name
- NCT07905885
- Testing
- Supervised Intradialytic Cycling
- Volunteers
- 12 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Organ Donation After Circulatory Death, Organ Donation
Improving Deceased Organ Donation and Transplantation Using the Donation Advisor Clinical Decision Support Tool
Every year, thousands of Canadians receive life-saving, cost-effective organ transplants, while thousands more still wait or die because not enough organs are available.
- Conditions
- Organ Donation After Circulatory Death, Organ Donation, Clinical Decision Support Tool
- Trial name
- DART (NCT07903428)
- Testing
- Donation Advisor clinical decision-support tool
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- OBS Medical Ltd
Post Traumatic Headache
Eary Infusion of Eptinezumab for TreatmEnt of ACute Post-Traumatic Headaches (ELITE-ACT)
Most individuals with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) experience post-traumatic headaches (PTH). Of PTH, 50% present with a migraine phenotype which is the most disabling type of PTH.
- Trial name
- NCT07191145
- Testing
- Eptinezumab
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD)
Ketogenic Diet and Neuromodulation in Treatment Resistant Depression
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if combining a ketogenic diet with a personalized, accelerated brain stimulation treatment (iTBS) works better than iTBS with a standard healthy diet to reduce depression symptoms in…
- Trial name
- ALIGN (NCT07376018)
- Testing
- Accelerated Intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation (iTBS), Ketogenic Diet, Canadian Food Guide-Aligned Diet
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Traumatic Rib Fracture(s), Traumatic Rib Fracture
Erector Spinae Plane vs Serratus Anterior Plane Catheter Infusions for Acute Pain Management in Patients With Traumatic Rib Fractures
Rib fractures happen in about 10-20% of patients with blunt trauma and can be serious, with higher death rates in older adults. These injuries often lead to lung problems like pneumonia, collapsed lung areas (atelectasis), fluid…
- Trial name
- NCT07756047
- Testing
- Erector spinae plane catheter, Serratus plane catheter
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 66 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Stroke, Ischemic
Testing a New Treatment Strategy to Improve Secondary Stroke Prevention for Older Adults: The STROKE75+ Trial
The overall aim of this research is to improve secondary stroke prevention for older patients with stroke. In current practice, patients with stroke are often prescribed antiplatelet therapy with either aspirin or clopidogrel to…
- Trial name
- STROKE75+ (NCT07454707)
- Testing
- Edoxaban 15 mg, Aspirin or clopidogrel
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 1,204 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Glioblastoma (GBM), Astrocytoma, Grade IV
UNIty-Based MR-Linac Guided Adaptive RadioThErapy for High GraDe Glioma-4
This study builds on the results of prior studies (UNITED and UNITED-3). The goal of UNITED-4 is to test whether an adaptive radiation therapy (RT) therapy approach ('dose painting'), with reduced margins, impacts approach in…
- Trial name
- UNITED-4 (NCT07459101)
- Testing
- Dose painting + Reduced Margins
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Treatment Resistant Depression
InTRavenous kEtAmine and immerSive virtUal Reality to Treat dEpression
Depression is a common condition, with serious negative effects on the health and quality of life of those affected. While there are currently various medications which attempt to treat depression, they often take a long time to…
- Trial name
- TREASURE (NCT06781697)
- Testing
- Ketamine, Oculus VR headset
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 31 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Late Life Depression (LLD), Depression - Major Depressive Disorder
Accelerated vs. Conventional Theta Burst Stimulation for Late-life Depression
The purpose of this trial is to compare the treatment efficacy (improvement in depressive symptoms) of accelerated TBS protocol (where participants receive multiple TBS treatments daily) to conventional TBS protocol (where…
- Conditions
- Late Life Depression (LLD), Depression - Major Depressive Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Treatment-Resistant, Mood Disorders
- Trial name
- ACT-LLD (NCT06854367)
- Testing
- TBS
- Where
- 2 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 280 people
- Sponsor
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Traumatic Hemorrhage, Coagulopathy
Factor In the Initial Resuscitation of Severe Trauma 2 Patients
Injury is the leading cause of death for people between the ages of 1-44. This is especially true in trauma patients who have bleeding complications.
- Conditions
- Traumatic Hemorrhage, Coagulopathy, Massive Hemorrhage
- Trial name
- FiiRST-2 (NCT04534751)
- Testing
- Fibrinogen + PCC, Frozen Plasma
- Where
- 6 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 142 people
- Sponsor
- University Health Network, Toronto
Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia
Evaluating Simplified Layered Consent for Clinical Trials
The goal of this clinical trial (the SIMPLY-SNAP trial) is to compare a simplified layered consent form to a full-length consent form for use during the informed consent process for a larger clinical trial of treatment of…
- Trial name
- SIMPLY-SNAP (NCT06168474)
- Testing
- Simplified layered consent form, Full-length consent form
- Where
- 6 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 347 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Coronary Artery Disease, Heart Failure Systolic
The Canadian CABG or PCI in Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Trial (STICH3C)
The Canadian CABG or PCI in Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy (STICH3C) trial is a prospective, unblinded, international multi-center randomized trial of 754 subjects enrolled in approximately 45 centers comparing…
- Trial name
- NCT05427370
- Testing
- Revascularization by PCI, Revascularization by CABG
- Where
- 46 sites in United States, Austria and 14 more
- Volunteers
- 754 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Late-Onset Neonatal Sepsis, Extreme Prematurity
Dopamine vs. Norepinephrine for Hypotension in Very Preterm Infants With Late-onset Sepsis
Fluid-unresponsive hypotension needing cardiotropic drug treatment is a serious complication in very preterm neonates with suspected late-onset sepsis (LOS; defined as culture positive or negative bloodstream infection or…
- Conditions
- Late-Onset Neonatal Sepsis, Extreme Prematurity, Neonatal Hypotension
- Trial name
- NCT05347238
- Testing
- Dopamine, Norepinephrine
- Where
- 22 sites in United States, Canada and 3 more
- Volunteers
- 550 people
- Sponsor
- Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada
Depression, Postpartum
The Pregnancy and Postpartum Mental Health Optimization Virtual Intervention Network
Depression, anxiety, and related disorders such as post-traumatic stress and obsessive compulsive disorder affect about 20% of pregnant and postpartum people.
- Conditions
- Depression, Postpartum, Anxiety, Pregnancy
- Trial name
- MOVIN (NCT07066631)
- Testing
- Enhanced Usual Care, MOVIN Care Platform
- Where
- 2 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 570 people
- Sponsor
- Women's College Hospital
Neonatal Resuscitation, Apnea Neonatal
Manual T-piece Versus Ventilator Positive Pressure Ventilation During Resuscitation of Extremely Premature Neonates
Many extremely premature infants require immediate help with breathing after birth. Positive pressure ventilation (PPV) using a device called a T-piece resuscitator is a common method.
- Trial name
- MVP (NCT06849596)
- Testing
- Ventilator derived positive pressure ventilation - V-PPV, T-piece resuscitator (TPR)
- Where
- 11 sites in United States, Canada and 1 more
- Volunteers
- 780 people
- Sponsor
- Michelle Baczynski
Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty (RTHA), Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty
CLinical Evaluation of ANtiseptic Skin Preparation in Revision Total Joint Arthroplasty of the Hip and Knee
The goal of this clinical trial is to compare two types of skin preparation solutions (chlorhexidine gluconate-alcohol solution and povidone-iodine solution) that help eliminate harmful bacteria on the skin at the time of surgery…
- Trial name
- CLEANJoint (NCT05828810)
- Testing
- Chlorhexidne Gluconate-Alcohol Skin Preparation, Poviodine-iodine Skin Preparation
- Where
- 3 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 400 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre