Status:

TERMINATED

Interest of Real Time Measurement of Autonomous Nervous System for the Detection of Brain Death

Lead Sponsor:

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne

Collaborating Sponsors:

Ministry of Health, France

Conditions:

Cerebral Hematoma, Traumatic

Intracerebral Hemorrhage, Traumatic

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

Context: A major lack of organ donors is a serious public health problem. It determines a prolonged delay before a transplant can be performed and thus a significant number of deaths of patients waiti...

Detailed Description

Aim: The aim of this second study is to validate prospectively the interest of the analysis in real-time of autonomic nervous system activity to detect brain death. Benefits expected: Increase the nu...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • severe cerebral lesions
  • admitted in intensive care units

Exclusion

  • neoplastic pathology
  • prior myocardiac infarction
  • hearth failure
  • atrial fibrillation
  • insulin-treated diabetes mellitus
  • cardiac pacemaker

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

August 1 2008

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

June 1 2009

Estimated Enrollment :

30 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00918970

Start Date

August 1 2008

End Date

June 1 2009

Last Update

June 15 2009

Active Locations (3)

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CHU de Dijon

Dijon, France, 21000

2

CH Roanne

Roanne, France, 42700

3

CHU de Saint-Etienne

Saint-Etienne, France, 42055