Omission of transcranial vessel sonography and exclusive application of cervical vessel sonography to determine brain death

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00017803

Enrollment

100

Registered

2020-11-23

Start date

2020-04-03

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-04-07

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Conditions

Brain death

Interventions

Group 1: Patients who have been clinically diagnosed with brain death and wehere irreversibility has been confirmed by EEG will additionally receive a sonography of the extracranial brain-supplying ve

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: confirmation of brain death with EEG or EP

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: MAD 90 mmHg

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
diagnosis of irreversibility of brain death via EEG or EP, in addition, sonography of all 4 extracranial brain supplying arteries and insonable intaracranial vessels (BA, VA R/L) to detect oscillating flow or systolic spikes	—

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactJohann Lambeck

Neurozentrum

johann.lambeck@uniklinik-freiburg.de0761-27053050

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 11, 2026