Assessing Brain Injury Using Portable Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Completed

Conditions studied: Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Complication, Acute Brain Injury

In brief

This study aims to assess the feasibility of assessing acute brain injury using a portable low field MRI in patients on ECMO.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05469139

Run by

Johns Hopkins University

People needed

50

Starts

2021-12-10

Expected to finish

2024-03-11

Last updated by the study team

2024-03-13

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adults age 18 and over
• Patient supported with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support (ECMO)
• Legally authorized representative has provided written informed consent

You may not qualify if…

• Patient has a contraindication for MRI such as:
• Implants such as pacemaker, defibrillator, implanted insulin pump, deep brain stimulator, vagus nerve stimulator, cochlear implant, or programmable shunt
• MRI incompatible surgical hardware such as staples, screws. ferromagnetic implants such as aneurysm clips, surgical clips, prostheses, cochlear implant
• artificial hearts or heart valves with steel parts
• metal fragments
• shrapnel
• tattoos near the eye
• permanent make-up
• steel implants
• or other irremovable ferromagnetic objects
• Patient weight is over 440 lbs (or 200kg)
• Patient has Intra Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP), Implanted Ventricular Assist Device (VAD), or Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device
• Patient is pregnant

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins Hospital — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• University of Texas Health Science Center — Houston, Texas, United States

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