There are about 9745 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Israel. 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 aim of the study was to investigate the utility and safety of home management of home oxygen therapy in acute bronchiolitis. A matched case-control study, of one hundred and thirty five infants aged less than 12 months diagnosed bronchiolitis with hypoxia attending a pediatric community clinic will be randomly assigned to receive oxygen with or without standard nebulized therapy. Nebulized treatment with either 0.1% epinephrine diluted in bromhexine, or 3% hypertonic saline. Intermittent oxygen treatment will be administered 6 times daily for 7 days. Primary outcome measures will be emergency department visits/hospitalization secondary outcome measures will be changes in Bronchiolitis Caregiver Diary Score.
In an era of delayed fertility plans, there is increasing need for fertility treatment in older women with poor response. Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) supplementation prior to treatment, as a thecal stimulant, may improve folliculogenesis and ovarian response.
The experience of illness and hospitalization exerts a great deal of psychological distress, one of the most distressful events people might experience throughout their life times. Surgery and anesthesia with their accompanying loss of control, fear of being unconscious and invaded, and expectation of postoperative pain adds appreciably to that stress and anxiety. Current psycho-physiological research has provided evidence on the alarming possibility of the aversive affects of hospitalization stress on the patients' already deteriorated physical health and marked interference with their recovery. As an additional stressor, which may partly be related to the hospital staff, and partly to the person's illness and expected surgery is loneliness. Loneliness is a painful experience that is, commonly, not embraced and which has consequences that are detrimental to one's emotional, physical and spiritual well being. The present study explores the qualitative aspects of loneliness (via questionnaires) in two patient populations: (1) patients facing surgery, and (2) patients who have already undergone surgery. In addition, family members [i.e. those waiting outside of the operating room] will be given a questionnaire, and these three groups will be compared to the general population.
Inadequate pain control after abdominal procedures may lead to adverse postoperative outcome. Epidural analgesia is currently an accepted technique in abdominal surgery, but its use has been limited in liver resections by postoperative coagulation disturbances and the possible increased risk of bleeding complications, including spinal hematoma. A range of alternative analgesic techniques can be used for major liver or pancreatic resections, including intrathecal morphine (single shot) administered immediately before surgery, and continuous administration of intravenous (IV) short-acting opioids, such as remifentanil, plus a single bolus of IV morphine. Postoperatively analgesia may be obtained by patient-controlled morphine analgesia (IV PCA). Both protocols have been demonstrated to provide satisfactory postoperative pain relief, and each has its unique advantages. However, to this end there is no data in the literature to show benefit from one regimen over the other. We therefore wish to determine whether there is a difference in analgesic efficacy between the two techniques, as optimizing perioperative pain relief in this rapidly expanding surgical field is of utmost importance. Our hypothesis is that continuous intraoperative IV analgesia with remifentanil followed by IV PCA morphine is not inferior to intrathecal morphine with respect to analgesia and ambulation outcome, and may provide an alternative, non-invasive intraoperative analgesic technique.
The purpose of this study to obtain ovarian cortical fragments from perimenopausal patients, who undergo pelvic organ surgery and test whether treatment with PTEN inhibitor and PI3K activating peptide would induce these fragments to produce FSH responsive follicles in the nude mouse model.
In the present study the investigators are going to explore the oxidative status of HS-RBC and its contribution to hemolysis
In this study we invetigate the influence of the nocebo effect (as part of obtaining informed consent) on the prevalence of side-effects. The study is prospective, focusing on the connection between what the physicians says to the patient about side-effects to the frequency of these side effects during treatment period. We also inquire whether informing the patient about the existence of the nocebo effect influences the extent of phenomena.
Our working hypothesis is that reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) can identify distinct subsets of melanocytic nevi that retain their distinctive pattern over time.
The investigators wish to evaluate coblation channeling in the treatment of chronic tonsillitis.
The study aims to investigate the efficacy of gait training using virtual reality to decrease the risk of falls in elderly idiopathic fallers. The investigator hypothesize that training with virtual reality would increase the ability to perform in the "real world" environment and decrease the risk of falls in elderly adults.