Status:
COMPLETED
Monitoring Organ Donors to Increase Transplantation Results (MOnIToR)
Lead Sponsor:
University of Pittsburgh
Collaborating Sponsors:
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Conditions:
Transplantation
Eligibility:
All Genders
16+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The objective of this study is to determine whether protocol guided resuscitation of brain dead organ donors using Pulse Pressure Variation (PPV) will increase the number of organs transplanted per do...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Inclusion Criteria:
- Donors who were declared brain dead per local hospital brain death criteria.
- Donors who are deemed suitable for organ donation by the local OPO whether they meet the standard criteria or the extended criteria for donation.
- Presence of functioning arterial catheter.
- Exclusion criteria:
- Inability to obtain informed consent from donor next of kin or legal representative.
- Donors less than 16 years of age, no maximum age limit.
- Inability to perform hemodynamic monitoring.
- Patients on lithium therapy prior to brain death.
- Known severe aortic regurgitation, intra-cardiac shunts, or on intra-aortic balloon pump.
- Donors previously enrolled in experimental protocol in which cytokines are the therapeutic targets (e.g. anti-TNF antibodies).
- Donors receiving chemotherapy or with any disease state (e.g. AIDS) that renders the subject leukopenic (WBC count \< 2).
- Donors receiving anti-leukocyte drugs (e.g. OKT3) regardless of their WBC counts.
- Pregnant donors.
- Donor is on ECMO machine
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 2009
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
556 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00987714
Start Date
August 1 2009
End Date
March 1 2013
Last Update
April 5 2018
Active Locations (8)
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1
LifeLink of Georgia
Norcross, Georgia, United States, 30071
2
LifeBanc
Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44122
3
Lifeline of Ohio
Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43212
4
LifeShare of Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, 73116