There are about 36633 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in France. 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.
The high frequency of migraine contrasts with the disparity of its management. The FRAMIG 3 study, carried out in France on the basis of the definition criteria of migraine of the IHS 2004 classification, identified, on the basis of a questionnaire of a representative sample of the general population of 10532 people, 11.2% of the people meeting the criteria of defined migraine and 10.1% of the criteria of probable migraine. Only 40.2% knew they had migraine. 50% used self-medication. Although available since the late 1990s as an effective and specific treatment for migraine attacks, 7.5% of migraineurs in the FRAMIG 3 study used a triptan. In 2003-4, 1.5% of the 1,793,000 inhabitants of Alsace had received at least one prescription for triptans over a one-year period. 1.9% of them were considered overconsumers (greater than or equal to 144 doses/year). More than 10 years later, another population-based study, using data from the French national health agency, identified 1.8% of insured persons receiving a triptan. Several migraine prophylactic treatments have been shown to be effective in patients with frequent or severe migraine attacks, or who do not respond to crisis treatment, or who claim poor quality of life due to migraine, but only 50% of candidates for such prophylactic treatment were receiving it. Only 1.5% of migraine patients in the FRAMIG 3 study were taking prophylaxis. Quality of life was impaired in 57% of migraineurs in the USA and in 28% of French migraineurs. In Ali's study (Ali 2017), 6.9% of migraineurs had used a neurologist. A Brazilian study shows that the average delay of patients accessing a tertiary center was 17 years. As promising new prophylactic treatments become available, we wanted to study a population of migraineurs identified on the basis of a triptan prescription, in order to try to better identify the characteristics of this population, particularly in terms of analgesic consumption and use of specialized care. The objective of this study was to describe the quantity of triptans dispensed to residents of the Grand Est region aged 12 years and older, between June 1, 2018, and June 1, 2019, based on health insurance data. The secondary objectives were to compare the characteristics of insured persons who had at least one triptan dispensing with those of other insured persons, and to compare the characteristics of insured persons by quantity of triptans dispensed.
The main objective is to determine the prevalence of non-traumatic pathologies in the paragliding population using the Nordic type questionnaire. The paragliding pilots population frequently evoque pathologies, discomfort, or pain in the course of their practice. Said pain and discomfort, though unerelated any form of accident, seem to have an impact on the pilots' flying and their participation in daily life. However, no epidemiological data are available in the literature. Investigators hypothesize the existence of non-traumatic disorders and it seems interesting to quantify the extent of the phenomenon. The results of this study might encourage the proposition of preventive measures in order to minimize a potential risk factor for paragliding accidents, and participation restrictions.
The aim of this study is to understand and interpret the determinants that lead pregnant women to refer more to a health professional in order to better meet the patient's request.
This study aims to evaluate the clinical (pain) and functional (patient reported outcomes) efficacy of percutaneous discectomies under CT guidance to treat lumbar disc herniations resistant to conservative treatment and nerve root infiltrations. The aim is also to evaluate the economic impact of the procedure, mainly through the length of hospitalization and the time to return to work. Patients were evaluated initially before surgery and then at 1, 3 and 6 months.
Treatment of fracture related infection is challenging and often lead to failure in such situation that carry a high health cost burden. These infections are often polymicrobial, making the identification of all involved microorganisms a major concern to provide tailored antibiotic treatment. Culture-independent methods are needed to better represent the microbial diversity of infected wounds. Metagenomic sequencing might lead to an accurate microbiome characterization in infected trauma-related wound. Preliminary studies have reported results of metagenomic sequencing in diabetic foot infection but data focusing on non-diabetic infected patients are scarce. The impact of post-traumatic infected wound microbiome needs to be assessed, with regards to bacterial abundance, diversity including at the strain level and functional genes, along with their longitudinal evolution and association with clinical outcomes.
NIRS estimates tissue saturation of oxygenation in tissue beds. Animals studies suggested that transscrotal NIRS measurements can quantify testicular hypoxia and differentiate between torsed and non torsed testicles. The results of human studies are not conclusive. The hypothesis is that the difference in NIRS values between torsed and healthy testicles would not be zero and that this difference would be zero in control group and that NIRS could help to detect rapidly a TT Testicular torsion (TT) is a functional emergency. The diagnosis is sometimes difficult to make. No paraclinical examination can eliminate it with certainty. The investigators aimed to evaluate the interest of transscrotal near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) for the diagnosis of TT of child
In intensive care unit, dyspnea, the distressing and fearful awareness of breathing, is frequent and harmful. To be treated, dyspnea must be detected and quantified, which is impossible in approximately 50% of patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation. However, these non-communicative patients are exposed to the same risk factors for dyspnea as communicative patients and the impossibility to communicate a suffering increases its traumatic impact. In addition, simple therapeutic means, such as optimizing the settings of the ventilator, can significantly alleviate or even eliminate dyspnea. It is therefore particularly important to be able to detect and quantify it effectively. The Mechanical Ventilation - Respiratory Distress Observation Scale (MV-RDOS) is an observational dyspnea scale that bypasses patient involvement and represents a promising tool in the detection of dyspnea in non-communicative patients. However, its use is partly based on the observation of the facial expression of fear or the abdominal paradox, the assessment of which remains subjective. The analysis of ventilatory variability, which reflects the load-capacity balance of the respiratory system, could provide an alternative to detect dyspnea in these patients. The investigators are therefore going to measure the ventilatory variability using the thoracic motion signals obtained with a force sensor integrated in a chest strap and the ventilatory flows at airways in patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation during a spontaneous breathing trial and compare the indices of ventilatory variability with the dyspnea visual analog scale in communicative patients and with the MV-RDOS in all patients (communicative and non-communicative).
Few works have studied the area of analgesia covered by the spinal erector block in an objective manner, especially on the cephalo-caudal spread. The available data are dissection works or subjective data such as thermoalgesic or epicritic sensitivity. This information would however be relevant in order to propose a better analgesia. Indeed, it could explain certain failures by insufficient diffusion of the block. The use of a multistage block could be relevant, especially in the case of osteosynthesis on several vertebral levels.
Lumbar plexus block is described as a difficult block, thus requiring experienced practitioners. Many techniques have been used to date, notably anatomical landmarks, neurostimulation, and ultrasound-guided techniques. Among ultrasound-guided techniques, the "Trident" technique was described in 2006, while the "Shamrock" technique was described in 2013. Trident consists in putting the probe sagittally next to the lumbar spine and injecting local anesthetic around the lumbar plexus inside the psoas muscle at the level of L4. It is an out-of-plane puncture. Shamrock puts the probe transversely on the iliac crest. Authors of the 2013 article said the image obtained with this technique was an image of L4. This technique allows an in-plane puncture, which is a safe technique.
About 2% of pregnant women are going through from surgery during pregnancy. These are mainly represented by emergencies like abdominal conditions such as appendicitis. Pregnancy raises the issue of possible diagnostic confusion associated with operational difficulties related to a gravid uterus, i.e. increased in volume, and possible induced obstetric complications like premature delivery or miscarriage. late. The management of these patients is therefore complex and the literature is poor on the subject.