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2025-522506-20-00RecruitingPhase 4

Flumazenil for Benzodiazepine Reversal in Electroconvulsive Therapy (FLEET): A Randomized Controlled Trial

Source: EU CTIS (euclinicaltrials.eu) · Last updated 9 Sept 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open

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Brief summary (registry, in English)

To clarify if the FLZ reversal strategy leads to a reduction in cognitive side-effects without losing clinical efficacy, and whether it is associated with neurobiological changes in brain memory networks.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
145 (estimated)
First submitted
27 May 2025
Start date
7 Jan 2026
Lead sponsor
Region Hovedstaden
Diseases
Depression
EU CT number
2025-522506-20-00

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 4
  • Planned participants: 145
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

Built from the registry fields of EU CTIS (euclinicaltrials.eu). It describes the study design.

Who cannot take part

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Other illness

  • involuntary treatment; 2) known gross abnormalities in brain structure or 3) Pregnancy or breast-feeding, 4) unable to read and understand Danish, 4) any preexisting condition associated with an increased risk for prolonged or uncontrollable seizures, including, but not restricted to, epilepsy and alcohol- or benzodiazepine withdrawal states, 5) conditions associated with a reduced metabolism of flumazenil (e.g., liver failure).

Who the study is looking for

  • Patients with depression (unipolar or bipolar, ICD-10 codes F31.3-5, F32, F33); 2) admitted at a study affiliated department in the Mental Health Services of the Capital Region of Denmark; 3) who have been referred for ECT by their regular psychiatrist and have given informed consent to ECT, and 4) who are in treatment with a benzodiazepine (minimum of 0.5 lorazepam equivalents daily).

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on EU CTIS (euclinicaltrials.eu)

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Region HovedstadenFrederiksbergDenmarkRecruiting

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