Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02045407
Computed Tomography Angiography Accuracy in Brain Death Diagnosis
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 106 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Sergio Brasil, MD MSc · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to assess the reliability of computed tomography angiography (CTA) to diagnose brain death, face of several conditions that make impossible to define such diagnosis using clinical criteria exclusively.
Detailed description
Critically ill patients, presenting Glasgow Coma Score 5 or lower, will be submitted to the Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) of the skull assessment, and follow a clinical evaluation for brain death, additionally, transcranial Doppler would be applied as the gold standard for brain death. We will exclude patients whose do not can be submitted to contrast injection, or if a brain death clinical evaluation has been performed prior the CTA.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2014-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2018-01-01
- Completion
- 2019-01-01
- First posted
- 2014-01-24
- Last updated
- 2019-07-23
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Brazil
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02045407. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.