Foam that stops bleeding from the inside: new trial underway
NCT ID NCT02880163
First seen Jun 24, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This trial tests a device called ResQFoam, an expandable foam injected into the abdomen to stop severe internal bleeding caused by trauma. The study involves 40 people with life-threatening hemorrhagic shock who need emergency surgery. The goal is to see if the foam can safely raise blood pressure and control bleeding until surgery can be performed.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- ResQFoam (expandable foam device)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this foam could quickly stop life-threatening abdominal bleeding in trauma patients, buying time for surgery and improving survival.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early study with only 40 participants, so results may not apply to all patients. The foam could cause complications like increased abdominal pressure or fail to control bleeding.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 40 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Aug 2025
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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15 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Estimated age of 15 years or older (or subject weight estimated at greater than 50 kg if age is unknown) 2. Emergent, exsanguinating hemorrhage, from abdominal source as defined by: * Class III or IV hemorrhagic shock or * Assessment of Blood Consumption (ABC) score ≥ 2 3. Confirmation of abdominal hemorrhage by: * Direct visualization or * Positive Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST) or * Diagnostic Peritoneal Aspiration (DPA) 4. No other known, uncontrolled active sources of hemorrhage 5. Subject is intubated and sedated per local guidelines 6. Decision to administer foam is made within 30 minutes of admission to the emergency department. 7. Decision made to proceed to emergent laparotomy made within 30 minutes of admission to the emergency department. 8. Definitive surgical care is expected to occur within three hours of foam deployment 9. Subject must also be receiving concurrent transfusion of fluids or blood products. Exclusion Criteria: 10. Known or suspected major diaphragm injury 11. Known or suspected untreated pneumothorax 12. Known or suspected untreated hemothorax 13. Known or suspected blunt or penetrating cardiac or thoracic aortic trauma 14. Traumatic brain injury resulting in decapitation, visible brain matter or considered non- survivable based on initial physical exam 15. Received greater than five consecutive minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the pre-emergency department setting 16. Patients with Pulseless Electrical Activity 17. Known allergy to isocyanate 18. Known or suspected pregnancy 19. History of prior abdominal surgery or evidence of abdominal surgery (scars) 20. Disrupted abdominal wall that, in the opinion of the investigator would preclude ResQFoam from being adequately contained within the abdominal cavity 21. Subject in whom the abdominal aortic junctional tourniquet (AAJT) or Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) techniques have been used 22. Known Prisoners 23. Subjects with burns \> 20% of total body surface area 24. Subject/legally authorized representative/subject family member purposefully opted out of participation in the study 25. Known Do Not Resuscitate order (DNR) or Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) 26. Known enrollment in another randomized, interventional study
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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How to take part
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The places running it
2 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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A doctor treating you
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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University of Alabama at Birmingham
RECRUITINGBirmingham, Alabama, 35294, United States
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University of Cincinnati
RECRUITINGCincinnati, Ohio, 45219, United States
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