Around the world, researchers are working extremely hard to develop new treatments and interventions for COVID-19 with new clinical trials opening nearly every day. This directory provides you with information, including enrollment detail, about these trials. In some cases, researchers are able to offer expanded access (sometimes called compassionate use) to an investigational drug when a patient cannot participate in a clinical trial.
The information provided here is drawn from ClinicalTrials.gov. If you do not find a satisfactory expanded access program here, please search in our COVID Company Directory. Some companies consider expanded access requests for single patients, even if they do not show an active expanded access listing in this database. Please contact the company directly to explore the possibility of expanded access.
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To learn how to apply for expanded access, please visit our Guides designed to walk healthcare providers, patients and/or caregivers through the process of applying for expanded access. Please note that given the situation with COVID-19 and the need to move as fast as possible, many physicians are requesting expanded access for emergency use. In these cases, FDA will authorize treatment by telephone and treatment can start immediately. For more details, consult FDA guidance. Emergency IND is the common route that patients are receiving convalescent plasma.
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Displaying 50 of 57Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
There is surge in COVID infected patients in New York City with a shortage of hospital beds, ICU beds and ventilators. Strategies to reduce the need for all of the above are immediately needed. Further, few interventions are targeted in COVID infected patients early in the course of their disease and especially in the community/home settings. Respiratory decompensation appears to occur later in the disease process (i.e. 7-10 days after becoming symptomatic) therefore many patients are sent home from the Emergency Room and they subsequently decompensate later at home. Some patients die at home and others are returning to the Emergency Room with hypoxemic respiratory failure. There is no treatment offered to this population of patients, i.e. COVID suspected or confirmed and with respiratory symptoms or abnormal chest x-ray at the time of presentation. Based on experience across the globe, these patients are likely to worsen at home. The study team therefore proposes a prospective, single-center, parallel group, open-label, randomized clinical trial to assess the efficacy of fixed low continuous positive airway pressure therapy (CPAP) (FDA approved and often used for treatment of sleep apnea) in COVID confirmed or suspected patients with abnormal chest x-ray or respiratory symptoms who do not require hospital admission and are discharged home from the emergency room.
Legacy Health System
Of the many treatments proposed for COVID-19, few directly address the severe hypoxia among COVID-19 patients. Interim results from our single-center, non-randomized clinical trial (NCT04332081) suggest that hyperbaric oxygen therapy may reduce inpatient mortality or the need for mechanical ventilation among COVID-19 patients by more than half. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is delivered by increasing the atmospheric pressure surrounding a patient, which results in increased oxygen delivery to a patient's blood at a rate higher than any other available modality. It is already FDA-approved for several indications, including conditions with impaired gas exchange and severe infectious processes. Furthermore, several studies have found that hyperbaric oxygen therapy inhibits the production of proinflammatory cytokines, which may play a role in the pathophysiology of COVID-19. The goal of this proposal is to perform a multi-center, randomized controlled trial to evaluate the short-term and long-term efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for COVID-19 patients. This proposal will rigorously test whether hyperbaric oxygen therapy can reduce the substantial mortality and morbidity of this challenging disease.
Rigshospitalet, Denmark
For patients admitted with COVID-19 infection, it is often difficult to predict if or when their clinical condition will deteriorate. However subtle changes in vital signs are usually present 8 to 24 hours before a life-threatening event such as respiratory failure leading to ICU admission, or unanticipated cardiac arrest. Such adverse trends in clinical observations can be missed, misinterpreted or not appreciated as urgent. New continuous and wearable 24/7 clinical vital parameter monitoring systems offer a unique possibility to identify clinical deterioration before patients condition progress beyond the point-of-no-return, where adverse events are inevitable. The primary aim of this study is to test the effect of continuous wireless vital signs monitoring with generation of real-time alerts through a purpose-built GUI, compared to standard EWS monitoring on the cumulative duration of any severely deviating vital signs
Sultan Qaboos University
Objective: To determine whether NIV delivered through helmet interface reduces intubation rate among patients with COVID-19 ARDS compared to face-mask NIV and HFNC. Design, setting & participants: Two-center randomized clinical trial of 360 patients with mild to moderate ARDS and confirmed COVID-19 requiring non-invasive ventilation between August 2020 to January 2021. The patients with respiratory rate (RR) more than 30/min or oxygen saturation (SpO2) less than 90% or PaO2/FiO2 ratio less than 300 despite standard oxygen therapy by face mask (
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority
The purpose of this research is to remotely monitor individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 to learn more about progression and recovery from the disease. Individuals who test positive for COVID-19 will wear the Current Health wearable device continuously and answer a brief series of questions on Current Health tablet daily for up to 30 days. The health data will be used to develop predictive models of hospitalization risk.
Emanuela Keller
In neurocritical care, besides the standard intensive care monitoring, even more data are obtained from the very complex pathophysiological changes in brain disease. Medical staff for decision-making cannot integrate the huge amount of clinical data generated every second and visualized on different monitors, anymore. Lack of data integration and usability is a major reason that only few of the knowledge physicians use in this field is evidence based. Early warning systems, powered by predictive algorithms that detect critical states before they happen would allow the staff to intervene early and mitigate or even prevent such a critical state.
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Nursing homes have long faced special challenges in implementing effective infection prevention programs, including limited resources and diagnostic challenges in a frail functionally disabled long-stay population. Advancing our understanding of the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 within these facilities for vulnerable populations deserves urgent and further investigation. Environmental contamination with SARS-CoV-2 that is reported in limited studies highlights the potential importance of transmission between patients, their environment, and healthcare providers via direct and indirect contact. This study seeks to characterize the epidemiology of SARS-CoV- 2 in the NH patient room environment over time and the risk of transmission to near and far environments, with the explicit intent of developing integrated, simple COVID-19 infection prevention strategies that can be reported to and implemented throughout other nursing homes and long-term care facilities.
Aethlon Medical Inc.
This is an Early Feasibility Study (EFS) investigating the use of the Hemopurifier® in the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 Virus Disease (COVID-19).
University Hospital, Strasbourg, France
Diabetes is a major factor of morbi-mortality in Covid-19 infection. Currently, steroid therapy is required in patients under oxygen therapy. This treatment is associated with hyper glycaemia in patients with diabetes. Recommendations for the management of diabetes during Covid-19 infection is to use insulin treatment. The majority of units involves in the management of patient with Covid19 infection are not the experience in managing intensive insulin therapy and the time to ensure this follow-up. All the data in the literature are in favor of a positive impact of telemedicine on the metabolic control of diabetic patients. However, the routine use of telemedicine and more particularly tele-expertise within hospital units is very underdeveloped in France. The epidemic of Covid-19 represents a unique situation where the health authorities recommend to physicians to use telemedicine to ensure the follow-up and optimal management of patients. The aim of this study was to compare the metabolic control of diabetic patients infected with Covid-19 followed in tele-expertise to a group of diabetic patients infected with Covid-19 managed in standard conditions.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
In this 30-month study, the investigators propose to develop a culturally appropriate vaccine confidence intervention, targeting positive change related to HPV vaccine uptake behavior and reducing sentiments of hesitancy towards a COVID-19 vaccine, that can be seamlessly integrated into the existing environment of pediatric and family practice clinics in rural Alabama. To do so, the investigators will first assess stakeholders' knowledge, sentiments, and beliefs related to vaccination in general, a COVID-19 vaccination, and the HPV vaccination. The investigators will also assess stakeholders' perceptions of barriers to vaccination that exist in rural Alabama. This will occur in Aim 1. Then, in Aim 2, the investigators will use these data to inform the development of a non-invasive, modular synchronous counseling intervention targeting 15-17 year old adolescents (rationale for this age range presented later in this proposal). After the intervention has been finalized, in our final aim, Aim 3, we will conduct a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation cluster randomized control trial to assess intervention acceptability and feasibility (N=4 clinics; N=120 adolescents), while also assessing for a "clinical signal" of effectiveness. To support dissemination and scale up, also during Aim 3, we will document implementation contexts to provide real-world insight. To do this, the investigators will conduct in-depth interviews with the same groups of stakeholders that we interviewed in Aim 1.