Donors After Cardiac Death: Validating Identification Criteria

Completed

Conditions studied: Withdrawing Treatment

In brief

The purpose of this study is to validate a set of proposed clinical criteria that have been designed to identify patients who will die rapidly following the elective removal of life sustaining treatments.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00177606

Run by

University of Pittsburgh

People needed

600

Starts

2003-07-01

Expected to finish

2007-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-05-31

Who can join

Age: any, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• all patients who have life sustaining treatments withdrawn

You may not qualify if…

• confirmed brain death

Where it is running

• University of Cincinnati Medical Center — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
• Case Western Reserve University — Cleveland, Ohio, United States
• Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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