Autopsy report · NCT02987309

Indirect Calorimetry: SensorMedics Vmax vs GE Carescape - a Method Comparison Study

“Equipment failure”

The sponsor’s own words in the registry.

Life of this trial

• Registered 4 months before it started.
• Ran for about 2 years 11 months before it stopped.
• 6 participants enrolled.
• No results are posted on the registry.

Vital statistics

Status

Terminated

Sponsor

Oslo University Hospital

Sponsor type

University, hospital or other

Conditions

Nutrition Assessment; Critical Illness; Children

Participants

6

Sites

1

Countries

Norway

Trials that died the same way

• Effects of Interval Physical Training on Expiratory Flow Limitation in Recent Myocardial Infarction
  “technical problems in equipment” (78% match in meaning)
• Post-surgical Pain Assessment in Children: Roles of Skin Conductance and Genomics
  “inability to obtain equipment and lack of funding.” (58% match in meaning)
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Major Depression With EEG and Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Monitoring
  “Neuronavigation system equipment failure caused unreliable data” (57% match in meaning)
• Hemodynamic Monitoring of Newborn Infants With Impedance Cardiography Versus Echocardiography; a Validation Study
  “Never got medical equipment that worked properly” (56% match in meaning)
• Xenon-anesthesia on Patients Undergoing Major Liver-resection
  “A device would have had to be maintained. The maintenance company is insolvent; both another maintenance company and another serviced device were not available.” (55% match in meaning)

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.