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Carbon Monoxide Blood and DNA Biorepository

Conditions
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Interventions
Other: No study intervention
Registration Number
NCT01758653
Lead Sponsor
Intermountain Health Care, Inc.
Brief Summary

The purpose of this biorepository is to collect blood from patients at the time of CO poisoning and at follow-up visits months to years later. These samples can be used in the future to learn more about how CO damages the heart and brain and whether blood tests could predict which patients will have problems after CO poisoning.

Detailed Description

The investigators propose to establish a biorepository for storage of serum, plasma, and DNA collected from patients with carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. Participants will also be evaluated for clinical outcome. The biorepository will include serum and plasma from CO-poisoned patients drawn at the time of injury as well as from blood drawn at clinical follow-up visits. The biorepository will also bank DNA from these participants.

These specimens can be analyzed in the future to elucidate potential inflammatory and immunological mechanisms that cause brain and heart damage and identify possible biological and genetic predictors of poor outcome.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
300
Inclusion Criteria
  1. Symptomatic carbon monoxide poisoning (headache, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, fatigue, muscle aches, slowed mentation, confusion, loss of consciousness, etc.).
  2. Documented exposure to carbon monoxide and no other reasonable explanation for their signs and symptoms.

Exclusion criteria:

  1. Pregnancy
  2. Age < 18 years
  3. Unable to obtain informed consent
  4. Subjects who, in the opinion of the investigator, are unable to comply with the requirements of the study or are unsuitable for any reason. The investigator and the Sponsor, prior to enrolling the subject on a case-by-case basis, must approve and document any waiver of these inclusion and exclusion criteria.
  5. Anemia requiring blood products within the last 4 months or hematocrit less than the laboratory normal reference range
Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
BiorepositoryNo study interventionPatients with acute CO poisoning. Blood collection for biorepository only, no study intervention.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Biorepository for serum and plasmaWithin 24 hours of CO Poisoning

Serum and plasma from blood collected within 24 hours of acute CO poisoning

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Serum and plasma (sub-acute)4 weeks to 4 months after CO poisoning

Serum and plasma collected 4 weeks to 4 months after poisoning

DNA Sequestration24 hours to 12 months after CO poisoning

DNA sequestered from blood drawn up to 1 year from CO poisoning

Serum and plasma (long-term)4 months to 12 months after CO poisoning

Serum and plasma collected 4 months to 12 months after poisoning

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Intermountain Medical Center

🇺🇸

Murray, Utah, United States

LDS Hospital

🇺🇸

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

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