Clinical trials: Coma, open to volunteers
Death, Brain
Efficacy of High-Flow Humidified Oxygen (HFHO) in Apneic Oxygenation for Apnea Testing: A Comparison With Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP)
Brain death (BD) is characterized by a severe brain injury resulting in irreversible loss of all brain and brainstem functions, while other organs may remain viable.
- Trial name
- APNEAFLO2W (NCT07640009)
- Testing
- Apnea test under HHFO followed by an apnea test under CPAP., Apnea test under CPAP followed by an apnea test under HHFO.
- Where
- 4 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 28 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans
Coronary Artery Disease, Microcirculation Resistance
COronoary Microcirculation Analysis NETwork
COMA.NET (Coronary Microcirculation Analysis Network) is a prospective, randomized, open-label, parallel-group clinical trial designed to determine whether endotype-guided pharmacotherapy is superior to standard care in improving…
- Conditions
- Coronary Artery Disease, Microcirculation Resistance, Microcirculation; Biomarkers; Myocardial Ischemia, Microcirculatory Dysfunction
- Trial name
- COMA-NET (NCT07498231)
- Testing
- Coronary microvascular function assessment
- Where
- Poland
- Volunteers
- 180 people
- Sponsor
- Medical University of Bialystok
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
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
Neurocritical Conditions, Traumatic Brain Injury
Protein Intake Dosage on the Prognosis of Neurocritical Patients
This study investigates the effect of different early protein supplementation levels (1.0-2.0g/kg/d, divided into three groups) on the prognosis of neurocritical patients, focusing on the 28-day Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score…
- Conditions
- Neurocritical Conditions, Traumatic Brain Injury, Ischemic Stroke
- Trial name
- NCT07295301
- Testing
- Low-Dose Enteral Protein Supplementation (Enteral Nutrition Formulas + Whey Protein Powder), Moderate-Dose Enteral Protein Supplementation (Enteral Nutrition Formulas + Whey Protein Powder), High-Dose Enteral Protein Supplementation (Enteral Nutrition Formulas + Whey Protein Powder)
- Volunteers
- 216 people
- Sponsor
- Wenshan City People's Hospital
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
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
Death, Brain
ICU Management of Brain-Dead Donors Before Multi-Organ Procurement and Factors Associated With the Number of Organs Retrieved
Solid organ transplantation is the treatment of choice for end stage organ failure to improve patients' quality of life and survival.
- Trial name
- DONOR-OBS (NCT06768515)
- Testing
- No interventtion
- Where
- 2 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people
- Sponsor
- Société Française d'Anesthésie et de Réanimation
Acute Brain Injury Coma
Circadian Rhythmicity During Coma Awakening
Acute brain injury is a major cause of admission to intensive care units, as well as of mortality and morbidity, worldwide and for all age groups.
- Trial name
- COMARHYTHM (NCT06245434)
- Testing
- Repeated behavioural assessment, Act-Pass paradigm, Biological measures of circadian and monoamines biomarkers
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 90 people
- Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
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
Comatose, Prognosis
NEURO - Prognostication Using Late Somatosensory Evoked - Potentials
The main aim of this study is to develop a new technique for the passive diagnosis of cognitive-motor dissociation, with the detection of motor intention in a comatose patient by analysing the EEG signal and in particular the…
- Conditions
- Comatose, Prognosis, Critical Care
- Trial name
- NEURO-PULSE (NCT07506928)
- Testing
- EEGs
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Bordeaux
Coma, Electrographic Status Epilepticus
Treatment of ELectroencephalographic STatus Epilepticus After Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation-2 (TELSTAR-2)
The goal of this comparative effectiveness trial is to study electrographic status epilepticus (ESE) treatment in comatose patients after cardiac arrest.
- Trial name
- TELSTAR-2 (NCT06549426)
- Testing
- anti-seizure medication + sedative agent(s)
- Where
- 21 sites in Belgium, Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- University of Twente
Disorders of Consciousness
mindBEAGLE: Unlocking Functional Communication for Patients With Disorders of Consciousness
The goal of this clinical trial is to test how effective the mindBEAGLE device is in allowing people who are unconscious (due to a brain injury or other condition) to communicate using brain waves to answer Yes/No questions.
- Trial name
- NCT06426602
- Testing
- mindBEAGLE daily device use
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Amy Wagner
Cardiac Arrest (CA), Anoxic Brain Injury
Early WAKE-up Predictors After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
WAKE-OHCA is a prospective observational substudy of the Danish Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (DANOHCA) trial, identifier NCT05895838.
- Conditions
- Cardiac Arrest (CA), Anoxic Brain Injury, Comatose Survivors of Cardiac Arrest, EEG
- Trial name
- WAKE-OHCA (NCT06979700)
- Testing
- Automated Pupillometry, Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound, Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter
- Where
- 2 sites in Denmark
- Volunteers
- 250 people
- Sponsor
- University of Aarhus
Cardiac Arrest, Post-Anoxic Coma
QUality Of Life and surviVAl in carDIac arreSt Patients
QUO VADIS is a national observational study with the aim to describe clinical intervention and utilization of neuroprognostication tools in the management of patients admitted to ICU following cardiac arrest
- Conditions
- Cardiac Arrest, Post-Anoxic Coma, Central Nervous System Diseases
- Trial name
- QUOVADIS (NCT04129073)
- Testing
- Intensive care treatment
- Volunteers
- 1,600 people
- Sponsor
- Gruppo Italiano per la Valutazione degli Interventi in Terapia Intensiva
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
Sputum
Rapid and Safe Sputum Suction Method Validation
600 comatose patients admitted to the hospital in China from June 2024 to June 2028 were randomly divided into groups A and B. Group A used intermittent negative pressure suction through oral and pharyngeal ventilation, while…
- Trial name
- NCT06508008
- Testing
- continuous negative pressure suction, Intermittent negative pressure sputum suction through oral pharyngeal airway
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 900 people
- Sponsor
- Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University
Traumatic Brain Injury
Deployment of a Novel National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Clinical, Biomarker, Imaging, and Modifiers (CBI-M) Classification Framework for Emergency Department Patients With Glasgow Coma Scale 15 Traumatic Brain Injury (PIONEER-Prognosis)
This study is being done to learn how information from blood tests, medical records, and wearable devices that track sleep, activity, and heart rate can help predict how people recover after a concussion.
- Trial name
- NCT07858266
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 500 people
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest, Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury
Minimal Sedation Versus Standard Continuous Sedation After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Most patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remain comatose on hospital admission and are routinely managed with continuous sedation.
- Conditions
- Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest, Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury, Post-Cardiac Arrest Syndrome
- Trial name
- NCT07895771
- Testing
- Minimal sedation, Standard continuous sedation
- Where
- Slovenia
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- University Medical Centre Ljubljana
Brain Injury, Acute
Non-Invasive Monitoring Methods in Patients With Acute Brain Injury
Life-threatening mass effect (LTME) arises when brain swelling displaces or compresses crucial midline structures subsequent to acute brain injuries (ABIs) like traumatic brain injury (TBI), ischemic stroke (IS), and…
- Trial name
- NIMABI (NCT06504238)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 720 people
- Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center