Clinical trialNCT05388708RecruitingObservational

ARDS in Children and ECMO Initiation Strategies Impact on Neurodevelopment (ASCEND)

SponsorUniversity of MichiganEnrollment550Acute Respiratory Distress SyndromeExtracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

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Summary

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

Ryan Barbaro, MD
University of Michigan
Principal Investigator
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Sites

99 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

Australia

the Royal Children'S Hospital Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
Warwick Butt, MD
Recruiting
Perth Children'S Hospital
Perth, Australia
Simon Erickson, MD
Recruiting
Queensland Children'S Hospital
South Brisbane, Australia
Adrian Mattke, MD
Recruiting
the Children'S Hospital at Westmead
Westmead, Australia
Nitesh Singhal, MD
Recruiting

Canada

Stollery Children'S Hospital
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Laurance Lequier, MD
Recruiting
the Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Anne-Marie Guerguerian, MD
Recruiting

Chile

Pontificia Universidad
Santiago, Chile
Andres Castillo, MDJavier Kattan, MD
Recruiting

Colombia

Fundacion Cardiovascular de Colombia
Floridablanca, Colombia
Leonardo Salazar, MD
Recruiting

Italy

Istituto Giannina Gaslini
Genoa, Italy
Andrea Moscatelli
Recruiting

New Zealand

Starship Children'S Hospital
Grafton, Aukland, New Zealand
John Beca
Recruiting

Portugal

Hospital de Santa Maria
Lisbon, Portugal
Francisco Abecasis
Recruiting

Spain

Children'S Hospital and Vall D' Hebron Women'S Hospital
Barcelona, Spain
Joan Balcells Ramirez
Recruiting
Sant Joan de Deu Barcelona Hospital
Barcelona, Spain
Susana Segura Matute
Recruiting
Hospital Gregorio Maranon
Madrid, Spain
Amelia Sanchez GalindoLaura Butragueno Laiseca
Recruiting

Sweden

Ecmo Centrum Karolinska
Stockholm, Sweden
Lars Broman
Recruiting

United Kingdom

Royal Hospital for Children
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Mark Davidson
Recruiting
Leicester Children'S Hospital
Leicester, United Kingdom
Claire Westrope
Recruiting
Alder Hey Children'S Hospital
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Marie Horan
Recruiting
Evelina London Children'S Hospital
London, United Kingdom
Jonathan Lillie
Recruiting
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
London, United Kingdom
Timothy Thiruchelvam
Recruiting
Royal Brompton Hospital
London, United Kingdom
Justin Wang
Recruiting
Freeman Hospital
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Judit Llevadias
Recruiting
Southampton Children'S Hospital
Southampton, United Kingdom
Vanessa Stanley
Recruiting

United States

Children'S of Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Robert Richter, MD
Recruiting
Phoenix Children'S Hospital
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Erin Kreml, MD
Recruiting
Arkansas Children'S Hospital
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Matthew Malone, MD
Recruiting
Loma Linda University Children'S Hospital
Loma Linda, California, United States
Merrick Lopez, MD
Recruiting
Ucla Mattel Children'S Hospital
Los Angeles, California, United States
Neeraj Srivastava, MD
Recruiting
Valley Children'S Hospital
Madera, California, United States
Harry Kallas, MD
Recruiting
Ucsf Benioff Children'S Hospital Oakland
Oakland, California, United States
Mandeep Chadha, MD
Recruiting
Children'S Hospital of Orange County
Orange, California, United States
Adam Schwarz, MD
Recruiting
Lucile Packard Children'S Hospital Stanford
Palo Alto, California, United States
Timothy Cornell, MD
Recruiting
Ucsf Benioff Children'S Hospital - San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
Shan Ward, MD
Recruiting
Children'S Hospital Colorado
Aurora, Colorado, United States
John Kim, MD
Recruiting
Connecticut Children'S Medical Center
Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Allison Cowl, MD
Recruiting
Yale New Haven Children'S Hospital
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Josep Panisello, MD
Recruiting
Nemours Children'S Hospital, Delaware
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Marisa Meyer, MD
Recruiting
Uf Health Shands Children'S Hospital
Gainesville, Florida, United States
Kourtney Guthrie, MD
Recruiting
Nicklaus Children'S Hospital
Miami, Florida, United States
Withdrawn
Nemours Children'S Hospital, Florida
Orlando, Florida, United States
Timothy Maul, MD
Recruiting

59 more sites on the registry record.ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study — it may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 4 Feb 2021
Primary completion: 30 Sept 2027
Completion: 30 Sept 2027
Last update posted: 24 Dec 2025
Registered enrollment: 550
Registry id: NCT05388708

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 12 Jul 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.