Status:
COMPLETED
The Fibrin Pad Liver Study
Lead Sponsor:
Ethicon, Inc.
Collaborating Sponsors:
OMRIX Biopharmaceuticals
Conditions:
Hemorrhage
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
PHASE3
Brief Summary
The objective of this study is to evaluate the safety and and hemostatic effectiveness of the Fibrin Pad (FP) versus standard of care treatment (SoC) in controlling parenchymal bleeding during hepatic...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Subjects \> 18 years of age, requiring elective or urgent, open hepatic surgery
- Presence of an appropriate bleeding hepatic parenchymal Target Bleeding Site (TBS) as identified intra-operatively by the surgeon
- Subjects must be willing to participate in the study, and provide written informed consent
Exclusion
- Subjects with any intra-operative findings identified by the surgeon that may preclude conduct of the study procedure
- TBS is from large defects in arteries or veins where the injured vascular wall requires repair with maintenance of vessel patency and which would result in persistent exposure of the FP to blood flow and pressure during healing and absorption of the product
- TBS with major arterial bleeding requiring suture or mechanical ligation
- Subjects admitted for trauma surgery
- Subject is a transplant patient for fulminant hepatic failure
- Subject with TBS within an actively infected field
- Bleeding site is in, around, or in proximity to foramina in bone, or areas of bony confine
- Subjects with known intolerance to blood products or to one of the components of the study product or is unwilling to receive blood products
- Subjects who are known, current alcohol and / or drug abusers
- Subjects who have participated in another investigational drug or device research study within 30 days of surgery
- Female subjects who are pregnant or nursing
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
July 1 2010
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
October 1 2011
Estimated Enrollment :
84 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01166243
Start Date
July 1 2010
End Date
October 1 2011
Last Update
January 20 2014
Active Locations (9)
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1
Flinders Medical Centre
Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia, 5042
2
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Woodville, South Australia, Australia, 5011
3
The Alfred
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3044
4
University Hospital of the University of Saarland
Straße, Germany, D-66421