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Filter by:The goal of this pharmacodynamic study is to develop a model for Propofol administration for older adults (>65 years). The main objective is to create a model based on a new pharmacodynamic parameter, derived from frontal electroencephalogram (EEG), to admininster Propofol in older adults. With this new model, the investigators aim to: - Evaluate the relationship between the plasmatic concentration, described by the Eleveld pharmacokinetic model, versus the effect of the drug represented with a new parameter derived from the intraoperative frontal EEG. - To validate the predictive ability of Eleveld's pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic model, based on the bispectral index (BIS), compared to the new model based on a parameter derived from intraoperative frontal EEG. Participants will be asked to answer preoperative questionnaires, receive a Propofol intravenous infusion concomitantly with continuous BIS and EEG monitoring, and to be evaluated for clinical sings of loss and return of consciousness.
The goal of this clinical study is to test feasibility and effectiveness of a personalized, home-based motor-cognitive training program in community-dwelling older adults with prescription for rehabilitation. Participants will conduct a motor-cognitive intervention program which is based on exergames (=interactive video games controlled by body movements), added to usual care for 2 weeks in rehabilitation centers (face-to-face supervision) and for 10 weeks at home (remotely supervised). Researchers will compare an intervention group and a control group to compare possible effects of the home-based study intervention to the effect of usual care alone on cognition, physical functions, and balance confidence.
The goal of this Randomized controlled trial is to investigate the effect of shortening the duration of preoperative oral carbohydrate drinks on blood pressure after anesthesia induction in elderly patients undergoing joint replacement surgery. The main question it aims to answer is Whether preoperative oral carbohydrate drinks can reduce the incidence of hypotension after anesthesia-induced hypotension in elderly patients undergoing joint replacement surgery.According to the numerical table method, the patients in the experimental group will drink carbohydrate drinks the night before the operation and 3 hours before the operation, and the control group patients will routinely fast
HF is an advanced or terminal stage of various heart diseases, with high rehospitalization and mortality rates. In HF patients, undernutrition is not uncommon and represents one of the most significant determinants of poor clinical outcomes. Therefore, nutritional management is of paramount importance for patients with HF.The basic method of nutritional management is to effectively identify the nutritional status of patients with heart failure, especially in elderly patients with heart failure who are not easy to find in the early stage. Limited data are available regarding the association between CONUT score and prognosis in elder patients with HFpEF, despite its easy availability in routine blood chemistry. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the prognostic significance of CONUT score and to compare it with other well-established nutritional indices in HFpEF, a common HF phenotype in the elderly population with coronary artery disease. This was a single-center retrospective cohort study which were approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of our hospital (TRECKY2021-185). Written informed consent was obtained from all patients. Participants were accorded with diagnostic criteria of CAD and HFpEF excluding rheumatic heart disease, congenital heart disease, acute myocardial infarction, hemodialysis or hemofiltration, tumour activity, urgent surgery, death during hospitalization, HF of unknown reasons, New York Heart Association(NYHA) class1and data deficiency. Demographic characteristics and medical parameters were collected from the electronic medical record system . All enrolled patients were followed-up in an outpatients setting. The primary endpoint of this study was readmission due to heart failure and all-cause mortality in the first year after hospitalization. To explore the prognostic significance of controlling nutritional status score in elderly with ejection fraction preserved heart failure and compare controlling nutritional status score with other objective nutritional indices.All analyses were performed using Statistical Product Service Solutions(SPSS) version 19.0 .
- The investigators wanted to find out if digital music and movement resources could be delivered in care homes. They rolled out a 12-week programme to 10 care homes and had 47 care home residents participate in the research. - The investigators also wanted to find out under what circumstances the digital music and movement resources would be most effective for the health and wellbeing of the care home residents. - A survey measuring the number of falls in the past three months, activities of daily living and health, psychosocial wellbeing (anxiety, depression, stress and loneliness), sleep satisfaction and frailty measures such as appetite and weight loss) was completed before and after the intervention. Also, interviews with residents and focus groups with staff were done after the intervention to find out how they felt about the programme.
In the older adult population, over the years, progressive changes are generated on the different functions and systems of the human body. The musculoskeletal system is not exempt from this process, with the loss of muscle associated with aging being one of the main problems for the older adult population. These alterations bring with them a decrease in muscle strength, along with a loss of functional capacity. Among all the consequences that these deficits can generate, there are: alterations in gait, difficulties in daily transfers, alterations in balance, among others. These changes develop as a consequence an increased risk of falling, these being one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality in the elderly. As technological development advances, new devices are being created that allow new forms of training our senses and abilities. Since its conception, in the late 1980s, virtual reality has been an area of growing possibilities. Butler and Willet define virtual reality as a technology that allows the user to interact directly with a computer-simulated environment. This tool is gaining more and more interest in the motor rehabilitation of multiple pathologies and also as an option for stability training in older patients. The aim of this study is to evaluate changes in stability after a 2 weeks protocol of virtual reality
Falls in older adults represents a growing public health challenge. The use of certain medication is recognized as an important modifiable risk factor for falls. Research indicates fall-risk increasing drug (FRID) deprescribing is effective in reducing falls but difficult to initiate and to sustain over longer periods of follow-up. A clinical decision support system (CDSS) and patient portal for communicating medication-related fall risk to fall clinic patients may improve joint medication management between patients and physicians and consequently reduce the incidence of injurious falls.
The Exercise for COlorectal OLder patients (ECOOL program) is randomized controlled trial to assess the effects of an exercise program on physical function and health-related quality of life of patients 75 years and older with colorectal cancer undergoing surgery. ECOOL is a multicomponent home-based exercise intervention focused on the development of strength, balance, gait ability and inspiratory muscle function of older patients who receive weekly telephone follow-up from cancer diagnosis to 3 months after surgery. The investigators expect that ECOOL program will improve physical function and health-related quality of life of older patients 3 months after surgery and to maintain these benefits up to 6 months after surgery compared with the control group receiving usual care.
CDI is a major cause of antibiotics-associated diarrhoea. More than half of the patients affected are 70 years or older and frail. Mortality among older patients with CDI is high. Faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a life-saving therapy which reduce symptom duration and mortality. The FMT procedure usually requires hospital attendance, and frail old patients often are too weak to tolerate transportation to hospital and may therefore be withheld treatment. The overall aim of the present project is to investigate whether a multimodal geriatric assessment, treatment and follow-up of frail older patients with CDI can improve patient survival compared with standard care. In particular, it is explored whether an expanded collaboration between the geriatric wards, early clinical assessment and home treatment with FMT contribute to increased patient survival rates.
This study aims to examine the clinical efficacy of dancing somatosensory videogames in improving physical health, cognitive performance, happiness, laboratory biomarkers, and structural brain imaging (magnetic resonance imaging, MRI) by a randomized controlled trial design, and hopefully to expand the scope of healthy aging intervention activities with strong scientific evidence.