There are about 9403 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Switzerland. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
Participants will perform two different listening tasks: (1) listening to, and repeating back, sentence lists presented in noise, and (2) Subjective rating of effort & performance following each condition. During this study, continuous, non-invasive physiological measurements (skin conductance, changes in pupil dilation) will be recorded from participants. Using this paradigm we will be assessing the effect of different hearing aid processing algorithms on listening effort. The study takes the form of a one factor (algorithm), within-subjects design. Each participant performs the Speech perception task with each algorithm (reference, noise reduction I, noise reduction II, noise reduction III), at two individualized signal-to-noise ratios (SRT90 and SRT50). Additionally subjective performance ratings in real-life will be collected.
This study is to investigate clinical efficacy of the pre-hospital triage of patients with suspected acute stroke by using advanced telecommunication tools with digital audio and video real-time streaming.
This study is to investigate the recent epidemiological trends and the treatment outcome in terms of the length of hospital stay, the relevant renal and neurological side effects, risk factors for developing these side effects, the selection of more resistant pathogens under therapy as well as the incidence of Clostridium difficile infections under treatment.
Uterine cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy in developed countries. Adenocarcinoma of the endometrium is the most common histologic type of uterine cancer. Endometrial cancer is the fifth most frequent cancer in women in Switzerland. The incidence rose up to 5.9% in 2015. This tumor affects mainly older women, at 63 years on average. The majority of women are diagnosed at an early stage. Seventy-five to 90% of the patients are alerted by abnormal uterine bleeding very quickly, which allows a quick management of care and a high survival rate. Besides age, one of the main risk factor of developing an endometrial carcinoma is obesity. In fact, obese women have higher risk to have an endometrial cancer, but also at a younger age than the average and finally they have an increased risk of death due to this particular cancer. Although this cancer is linked to the co-morbidities that go with obesity like diabetes or hypertension. The treatment of endometrial cancer in most women is surgery involving a total hysterectomy and a bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy with or without a lymph node dissection. For patients with early stage endometrial cancer, there is a disagreement regarding lymph nodes dissection, because randomized controlled trials and a meta-analysis have shown no clear evidence on overall or recurrence-free survival and a higher incidence on early and late complications in relation with pelvic lymph node dissection. A systematic lymph node dissection consists of removing all the nodes within a nodal drainage basin. This dissection proves to be very difficult in obese patient and includes a risk to damage blood vessels or nerves. Moreover, lymph node dissection is associated with a higher morbidity, longer operating time, more frequent blood loss and finally symptomatic lymphedema and seroma. That is why, sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) seems to be a good alternative to lymph node dissection. The tumor's spread is assessed in lymph nodes with a reduced morbidity. In fact, lymphadenectomy and its dangerous complications, like lymphedema, could be avoided in the vast majority of cases. Indeed, a histological analysis of these sentinel lymph-nodes (SLNs) leads to ultrastadification: cancers are graded depending on the presence and the size of metastasis in lymph nodes. Adjuvant treatments, such as radiotherapy or chemotherapy, can be suggested following these data and a better management of endometrial cancer is possible.
The objectives of this study are to evaluate the efficacy and safety of sotatercept (MK-7962) treatment (plus background pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) therapy) versus placebo (plus background PAH therapy) at 24 weeks in adults with PAH. The primary hypothesis of the study is that the participants receiving sotatercept will have improved 6-minute walk distance (6MWD) at 24 weeks compared to participants receiving placebo.
The purpose of this study is to compare the postoperative pain, the time needed and other clinical outcomes in patients who, during laparoscopic colectomy, will be injected with a local anesthetic (Ropivacaine) through an ultrasound guided technique performed by the anaesthesiologist or throught a laparoscopic assisted technique performed by the surgeon
Fetal monitoring by transabdominal electrocardiogram recording
The current refugee crisis across the Middle East and Europe has large effects on individual refugees' psychological well-being, as well as on the healthcare systems of countries hosting refugees. For example, in Switzerland patients sometimes have to wait up to 12 months for the specific psychological treatment due to a lack of specialists. To address this problem the WHO has developed Problem Management Plus (PM+), a brief (five sessions), low-intensity psychological intervention, delivered by paraprofessionals, that addresses common mental disorders in people in communities affected by adversity. The effectiveness and implementation of PM+ has never been examined in Switzerland before, this is the aim of the current randomized controlled trial.
This study will collect information on side effects and how well Esperoct® (turoctocog alfa pegol (N8-GP)) works during long-term treatment (prophylaxis) in males with haemophilia A. Participants in this study will get the same treatment as they would normally get, if they were not participating in the study. All visits at the clinic are done in the same way as participants are used to, when visiting their doctor. During visits at the clinic participants might be asked for some relevant tests if considered useful by the study doctor. During the visits the study doctor might ask if participants had any side effects since the last study visit. Participants will be asked to note down in their own diary the number of bleeds and how these were treated, as well as their regular prophylaxis. Participation in the study will last for about 5-7 years, depending on when participants join the study. Participants are free to leave the study at any time and for any reason. This will not affect their current and future medical care.
A "cannot intubate, cannot oxygenate" (CICO) situation is rare in paediatric anaesthesia, but can always occur in children under certain emergency situations. There is a paucity of literature on specific procedures for securing an emergency invasive airway in children under the age of 6 years. A modified emergency Front Of Neck Access (eFONA) technique using a rabbit cadaver model was developed to teach invasive airway protection in a CICO situation in children. After watching an instructional video of our eFONA technique (tracheotomy, initial intubation with Frova catheter over which an endotracheal tube is inserted), 29 anaesthesiologists will perform two separate attempts on rabbit cadavers. The primary outcome is the success rate and the performance time overall and in subgroups of trained and untrained participants.