There are about 173942 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in United States. 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.
All patients with serious mental illness are abstinent while in the hospital for a psychiatric admission yet almost all return to smoking after discharge. The investigators propose to adapt a digital intervention both to the needs of SMI smokers and to being introduced in the inpatient psychiatric setting through a collaboration between experts in SMI and the Truth Initiative, a pre-eminent tobacco control organization. The investigators believe this will bridge the inpatient to outpatient gap in cessation services and will help people remain abstinent following hospital discharge.
A controlled trial of the drug tranexamic acid (TXA) in inpatients recently admitted to the hospital with the diagnosis of COVID19. It is hypothesized that TXA will reduce the infectivity and virulence of the virus.
Participants scheduled for for an echocardiogram (echo) and being evaluated for, or is positive for COVID-19 will be asked if they would be willing to have their echo done using a new software program on one of the hand-held ultrasound scanners. The new software program guides the investigator, or any other non-sonographer, to take the best possible pictures of the participants heart. The prior version of this software is already being used clinically and is FDA approved. The main reason for using the updated version is that it's faster and better in terms of guiding the user.
The investigators propose to investigate the effect of intraoperative FICB and intrafragmentary fracture blockade on postoperative pain and opiate consumption using a randomized controlled trial study design. There will be three treatment groups: (1) fascia iliaca compartment blockade administered after surgical fixation using the loss of resistance technique with 30cc 0.25% marcaine (2) intrafragmentary fracture block using fluoroscopy guidance after surgical fixation with 30cc 0.25% marcaine and (3) placebo group, with no intervention.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SAbR), also known as stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), for treatment of ventricular tachycardia (VT) requiring implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) treatments in patients with VT refractory to standard invasive ablation techniques. We hypothesized that SAbR is effective in suppressing sustained VT and reducing ICD treatments in this group of patients and is associated with acceptably low risk of serious complications.
There is a robust body of research suggesting that the use of pre-surgical orthopedic devices prior to definitive cleft lip/nose repair results in significant improvement of facial aesthetics with long term follow up. However, in recent surveys of the cleft centers in the US, only 30% of cleft centers offer PSIOs, and only 13% routinely report its use. Accordingly, thirty percent of centers utilize a two-stage cleft lip/nose repair in the centers' algorithm (1st: lip adhesion; 2nd: final lip repair). The major drawback to a two-stage cleft procedure is the administration of two general anesthetics to an infant before the age of one year. There is a growing amount of evidence that multiple anesthetic experiences before a certain age could affect brain development. It is difficult to make inferences as to why clinicians are not utilizing surgical aids to decrease the size of the cleft width, but even when PSIO is offered, caregivers experience additional, potentially prohibitive challenges. In one study, caregivers traveled an average of 70 miles to visit the nearest cleft center offering pre-surgical orthopedic devices. As these devices are created by hand every 1-2 weeks after seeing the child in clinic, parents are required to travel to clinic multiple times per month. Not surprisingly, infants who were first-born and those who did not have other siblings were more likely to receive pre-surgical orthopedic treatment than infants who were residing with other siblings. Given the benefits of PSIOs and the barriers both to healthcare systems and patients' families associated with PSIOs in its current form, a new form of pre-surgical clinical management is needed. Objectives: 1. Evaluate JHH's current clinical performance in addressing unilateral cleft lip and nasal deformity. 2. Elucidate the difference in preoperative cleft size and in surgical management/outcomes for patients who received PSIOs through 3D-printed devices. 3. Using the above maxillofacial growth data with and without PSIOs, the investigators aim to create an algorithm to predict maxillofacial growth for each individual patient to design pre-sequenced custom PSIO devices.
The purpose of the study is to determine the effect of Natural View Multifocal lenses, a soft multifocal lens, on retardation of myopia in an optometric student population. Close up work (i.e. reading, computer work, etc.) is thought to play a factor in the progression of myopia in young adults. The progression should be slowed if not stopped through the use of peripheral defocus lenses (Natural View Multifocal) to change the optics of the eye in order to focus the image on the peripheral retina as opposed to behind it.
For participants with CD30 positive Mature T-cell lymphomas who have received brentuximab vedotin, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and prednisone (A-CHP) as induction (4 to 6 cycles) and achieved complete response (CR) or chemo-sensitive partial response (PR) and deemed suitable for autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) as consolidation, the investigators propose to add brentuximab vedotin after ASCT. There is currently no standard of care treatment to prevent relapse after upfront treatment or ASCT for CD30-positive peripheral T-cell lymphoma's (PTCL)s. An agent that could improve outcomes in this population would be a major contribution to the field and is likely to be practice changing. Therefore, in addition to studying the anti-lymphoma activity of A-CHP as induction therapy, for participants who respond to induction the investigators propose to add brentuximab vedotin consolidation after ASCT in participants treated with consolidative upfront ASCT.
The standard of care for obese men starting Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is physician based dietary and exercise counseling. Interventions to lessen the harmful effects of ADT are needed yet have been limited. Exercise is one strategy that has been attempted however there is conflicting data as to whether or not exercise effectively improves body mass, results in sustained weight loss, improvements in metabolic risk profiles including glucose tolerance and lipid profiles in men starting ADT, or has any effect of progression of cancer. Dietary interventions have been attempted without clear improvement in weight, metabolic factors, quality of life or cancer progression. Bariatric arterial embolization (BAE), given it results in weight loss in obese men and women without cancer, may be able to stave off the harmful side effects of ADT by inducing weight loss. Therefore, the investigators hypothesize that Bariatric Arterial embolization (BAE), done prior to initiation of ADT, will mitigate the weight gain and metabolic side effects associated with ADT, by inducing weight loss of at least 5% in obese men with biochemical recurrent prostate cancer starting ADT. The primary objective is to determine if BAE, done prior to ADT initiation in obese men (with obesity related comorbid condition) with biochemically recurrent prostate cancer, can induce 5% or greater weight loss at 6 months.
This is a preliminary study of how human beings control balance and how symptoms of visually-induced dizziness may result in falls. The researchers created new tests of orientation and balance, as well as a new treatment for visually-induced dizziness. The researchers will use the new tests and treatments with adults who are affected by visually-induced dizziness. Testing is done twice before and once after treatment. The total time participants are involved in the study is approximately two weeks.