Autopsy report · NCT01617291

Therapeutic Hypothermia After the Return of Spontaneous Circulation

“A similar study was recently published with definitive results.”

The sponsor’s own words in the registry.

Life of this trial

• Registered 10 months before it started.
• Ran for about 11 months before it stopped.
• 46 participants enrolled.
• No results are posted on the registry.

Vital statistics

Status

Terminated

Phase

Na

Sponsor

University of California, San Francisco

Sponsor type

University, hospital or other

Conditions

Cardiac Arrest

Interventions

Induced therapeutic hypothermia

Participants

46

Sites

1

Countries

United States

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Look deeper

• The official registry record (the source of truth)
• Record history: every change the sponsor made
• Open it in the database

Everything here comes from the current ClinicalTrials.gov record. The timeline uses the record’s dates; dates marked planned are the sponsor’s plans. The cause of death is an automatic, unverified label. This is research information, not medical advice.