Computed Tomography Angiography Accuracy in Brain Death Diagnosis

Status Completed

Clinical Trial 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.

Clinical Trial 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. ;

Study Design

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT02045407
Study type	Observational
Source	University of Sao Paulo
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase
Start date	January 2014
Completion date	January 2019

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