Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01040520
Value of CT-based Autopsy Compared With Conventional Autopsy in ICU Patients
Computertomography-based Autopsy (Virtopsy) Versus Conventional Autopsy in Patients Dying in Intensive Care Units
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 284 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The aim of the study is to compare findings generated by CT-based autopsy (Virtopsy) with conventional autopsy and clinical diagnoses. Therefore all patients dying while receiving treatment in the Department of Intensive Care Medicine will be undergo virtopsy and, if relatives give informed consent conventional autopsy.
Detailed description
The aim of the study is to compare findings generated by computertomography-based autopsy (Virtopsy) with conventional autopsy and clinical diagnoses. Therefore all patients dying while receiving treatment in the Department of Intensive Care Medicine will be undergo virtopsy and, if relatives give informed consent conventional autopsy.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2010-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2010-07-01
- Completion
- 2010-07-01
- First posted
- 2009-12-29
- Last updated
- 2015-05-29
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01040520. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.