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Filter by:Novel corona virus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic which stared from Wuhan in China is now a well established pandemic worldwide. After Italy, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom and USA, India is at the edge of becoming the next epicentre of this Pandemic. If adequate preventive and therapeutic measures are not taken, India has very high risk of affecting million of people with high mortality because of the large population along with very high population density. At present there are no definitive therapeutic drugs or vaccine are available for the treatment and prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Symptomatic and supportive care are being given to COVID-19 cases along with isolation and quarantine measure are being taken for the suspected individual at risk for COVID-19 to limit the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 infection . Among the all the drugs being used for the treatment of COVID-19, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), has given some rays of hope to battle against this deadly pandemic. HCQ has some anti viral effect against SARS-CoV in vitro. HCQ is quite safe and being used in rheumatology patients for lifelong without much side effect, so it allow for higher dose without any significant side effects and drug-drug interaction. Recently published clinical trial suggested HCQ can be used for the therapeutic purpose of the SARS-CoV-2 infection. Indian council of medical research (ICMR) has advised for HCQ prophylaxis for all asymptomatic health care workers involved in taking care of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cases and all asymptomatic household contacts of labarotory confirmed COVID-19 cases. But there is still lack of significant scientific data to prove or disprove the efficacy of HCQ for the treatment and post exposure chemo-prophylaxis for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Being a tertiary care centre we are catering many states which include Punjab, hariyana, himachal Pradesh, Uttara khand, Uttar Pradesh. Among this Punjab have highest population of non residential Indian (NRI) and most of them have returned home. This put our institute to handle highest burden of suspected cases of SARS-CoV-2 in northern India. So we have planned this open level control clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) with HCQ for the prevention of COVID-19 in asymptomatic individuals who are at risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection. All asymptomatic individuals who have undertaken international travel in last 2 weeks and all asymptomatic individual with direct contact with laboratory confirmed cases will be advised for home quarantine for 2 weeks along with social distancing and personal hygiene. They will be given the option for taking HCQ prophylaxis. These quarantined asymptomatic individuals will be assigned into one post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) group and one control group as per inclusion and exclusion criteria. Individual who will not give consent for HCQ prophylaxis and those with contraindication for HCQ therapy like, hypersensitivity to HCQ or 4-aminoquinolone derivatives, patients with known retionopathy, cardiac arrhythmia, G6PD deficiency, psoriasis and pregnancy will be directly included in the control group. All symptomatic individual, and all health care workers related to suspected or proven COVID-19 will be excluded from the study. The PEP group will receive tablet HCQ 400 mg q 12 hourly on day one followed by 400 mg once weekly for 3 weeks (total cumulative dose of 2000 mg). The control group will not receive HCQ. Both the groups will receive standard care of therapy in the form of home quarantine for 2 weeks along with social distancing and personal hygiene. They will be followed up for 4 weeks telephonically or physically as and when required and will be enquired regarding development of any COVID-19 symptoms like fever, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, diarrhoea, myalgia.During follow up nasopharyngeal and or throat swab of the participants will be taken for processing reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RTPCR) for the detection SARS-Cov-2 RNA to confirm CoVID-19. Samples for RTPCR will be taken when any asymptomatic participants become symptomatic and by the 5-14 days of contact in asymptomatic participants through in-hospital visit at the institute's communicable disease ward isolation. The participant with RTPCR positive and with or without symptoms will be defined as definite COVID-19 case and the RTPCR negative symptomatic participant will be defined as probable COVID-19 case. Asymptomatic participants with negative RTPCR will be defined as non-COVID case. Incidence of COVID-19 or probable COVID-19 or non-COVID case in previously asymptomatic participants will be compared between the PEP and control groups.
To date there is no brain imaging and olfactory data available in COVID-19 positive patients with anosmia. By describing the pathophysiological characteristics underlying the olfactory symptoms and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 infection, the study investigators wish to compare the MRI aspects obtained in COVID-19 patients with and without anosmia, in the absence of other underlying neurological disorders.
COVID-19 is a rapidly evolving pandemic with approximately 5% of all patients which require intensive care unit admission. In critically ill patients infected with COVID-19, approximately 15% had severe shock requiring medications to increase blood pressure. It appears that blood vessel tone is altered and microcirculation is not well regulated in patients with COVID-19. The underlying pathophysiology and contributing factors are unknown. The association with subsequent organ dysfunction and outcome is also unclear. Therefore, the investigators aim to investigate serial changes of relevant biomarkers in this population to improve the understanding of this disease, to investigate the association with clinically important outcomes and to find out how best to treat patients. The data will serve to develop strategies for individualised management of this high-risk group.
The COVIDHELP study will prospectively evaluate the yet unknown clinical course of the COVID-19 infection in cancer patients and document the impact of potential infrastructural limitations on cancer care of COVID-19 positive patients. All patients consenting will provide peripheral blood samples for prospective biobanking with the aim of investigating immune response and immunity against COVID-19.
This study aims to find out whether the use of angiotensin II, which is a drug to raise blood pressure has been approved by European Medical Agency in August 2019, as an add-on medication to increase blood pressure in patients with COVID-19, acute severe lung injury, inflammation and severe shock, compared with standard medication. In addition, the investigators will collect the data of Anakinra, another drug which is frequently used in this condition to reduce inflammation. The investigators will collect clinical data and outcomes from critical care patients. The investigators will analyse for whom these drugs are most beneficial and explore whether there are any patients who don't benefit or have side effects.
This research aims to investigate the role of daily measurement of urinary cell cycle arrest markers and other serum and urinary biomarkers to predict the development of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients with COVID-19 and acute respiratory disease.
Randomized, controlled study conducted in hospitalized patients with severe COViD-19 pneumonia and coagulopathy not requiring invasive mechanical ventilation. Aim of this study is to assess whether high doses of Low Molecular Weight Heparin (LMWH) (ie. Enoxaparin 70 IU/kg twice daily) compared to standard prophylactic dose (ie, Enoxaparin 4000 IU once day) are: 1. More effective to prevent clinical worsening, defined as the occurrence of at least one of the following events, whichever comes first, during hospital stay: 1. Death 2. Acute Myocardial Infarction [AMI] 3. Objectively confirmed, symptomatic arterial or venous thromboembolism [TE] 4. Need for either non-invasive - Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (Cpap) or Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) - or invasive mechanical ventilation for patients who are in standard oxygen therapy by delivery interfaces at randomisation 5. Need for invasive mechanical ventilation for patients who are in non-invasive mechanical ventilation at randomisation 2. Similar in terms of major bleeding risk during hospital stay
The purpose of this study is to retrospectively review clinical data to determine whether awake proning improves oxygenation in spontaneously breathing patients with COVID-19 severe hypoxemic respiratory failure.
This is a multicenter, Phase 2 study, to assess the efficacy of the treatment with convalescent plasma in patients with severe COVID-19 infection.
This clinical trial will evaluate the safety, tolerability and effectiveness of topical GLS-1200 nasal spray to reduce the incidence of confirmed, symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection.