There are about 83 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Paraguay. 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.
Two diagnostic tools for TB screening in high risk groups need additional assessment: the AeoNose™, an 'electronic nose device' for breath sampling, and digital chest X-ray (CXR) with computer aided detection with CAD4TB® software. This study will systematically screen prisoners and its' employees for TB, test the diagnostic performance of AeoNose™ and CAD4TB (both individually and together) as a TB screening tool and and establish Mycobacterium tuberculosis epidemiology in Paraguayan prisons.
This study aims to show that giving high dose, intravenous vitamin C in addition to standard care to burned critically ill patients will be associated with less organ dysfunction, improved survival and a quicker rate of recovery. In this study, all patients will receive standard care and of the patients will also receive high dose intravenous vitamin C, while the other half of patients will receive placebo.
This study is divided into two parts: Part 1: An interventional study, with a pre-post study design to determinate the grade of knowledge of established GC risk factors. Part 2: An observational study to know impact on prevalence and infection eradication of H. pylori
Observational study (cohort type) of advanced GC patients that will be recruited prospectively to study biological factors associated with the disease and relevant clinical outcomes.
The study uses a case-control design that examines the differences in types of exposures between cases defined with a pathological confirmation of GC diagnosis, and controls, defined as patients to whom a gastroscopy was indicated and confirmed absent of GC i
A single-arm study to observe NeuroTronik Cardiac Autonomic Nerve Stimulation (CANS) Therapy System hemodynamic and other physiologic effects.
The purpose of this study is to establish if a strategy of EBCPAP application in a subgroup of VLBWI, 800 to 1500g birthweight, decreases the need for mechanical ventilation in this group, without affecting mortality.