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Filter by:Background: People undergo many changes when they have a life-threatening illness. Their values may change. They may have less fear of illness and death. They may become more spiritual. Researchers made a questionnaire called HEALS (Healing Experience During All Life Stressors). They want to use it to better understand these positive changes. They hope to provide better care for people with serious illnesses. Objectives: To develop the HEALS tool to better understand psycho-social-spiritual healing in people with serious illnesses. Also, to find out how palliative care services help people handle their illness or stress. Eligibility: Adults at least 18 years old at least 91 days after being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. They must be getting: Inpatient or outpatient palliative care at NIH Clinical Center OR Inpatient palliative care at Suburban Hospital OR NIH outpatient palliative care provided at Mobile Medical Care Clinic Design: Participants will be screened with questions to make sure they are eligible. Participants will have 1 individual research session. This will be at the NIH Clinical Center. Participants will be interviewed by a research team member. They will be asked about changes in a person s way of living that might happen during or after a serious illness. Participants will be asked for their thoughts and opinions about the questions. They will be asked what ideas they may have to make the questions better. Interviews will be audiotaped. Participants will be asked some questions specific to their care location and team. These are to better understand how their services are helping participants. ...
Anticoagulation is required to prevent clotting in the extracorporeal circuit during continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). Regional citrate anticoagulation has many advantages regarding bleeding risk and filter survival. However, in clinical practice, its use worldwide has been limited by cumbersome protocols . In order to establish a simple scheme for universal application. In Aug 2015, the investigators have adopted a new protocol using a fixed citrate concentration in the filter of about 4 mmol/L (called fixed group for short) instead of conventional adjusted citrate doses according to postfilter ionized calcium levels of less than 0.4mmol/l (adjusted group), and speculated the abilities on efficacy and safety as well as convenience.
Prospective observational study designed to implement a daily monitoring of microcirculation and tissue oxygenation in all critically ill patients admitted to the ICU in the period of nine months, in order to assess the prevalence of microvascular perfusion abnormalities and their relation to: outcomes, underlying disease, hospital stay, clinical-laboratory and hemodynamic parameters commonly measured, indices of clinical severity and predictors of mortality , therapeutic interventions that are part of routine clinical practice (fluids, sedation, vasopressors, inotropes, anticoagulants, renal replacement therapy, blood transfusion). The study also includes the evaluation of sublingual microcirculation and tissue oxygenation in 30 healthy volunteers to compare normal and pathological conditions. Within the first 12 hours after admission to ICU and every 24 hours for the duration of hospitalization, the following evaluations will be made: -study of sublingual microcirculation using sidestream dark field (SDF) imaging, muscle tissue oxygenation using near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). The data will be analyzed to test correlation between the outcome of patients admitted in ICU and microcirculatory parameters.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of anti-infective central venous catheter(Certofix®Protect) on reducing catheter-related bloodstream infection in critically ill patients in China, and the relationship between catheter-related bloodstream infection and catheter-related thrombosis.
The patients will exposed to different intervention through three nights (ear plug, eye mask). 50 patients in the age range 18- 60 years admitted to ICU of Assiut university hospitals will be randomly allocated into into two groups (control group and intervention group).
Remifentanil is one kind of opiates with strong analgesic effect,which has the rapid onset and short lasting duration. Remifentanil usually is used to help reducing the pain of patients with mechanical ventilation in ICU. Maybe it can also be used to ease the pain in ICU small short time operation.The purpose of this study is to determine (1) whether remifentanil is effective in small short time operations in ICU or not, (2) the save range of remifentanil in small short time operations in ICU, (3) and the adverse reaction that happens in these operations.
This study plans to learn more about whether simpler diagnostic tests can be used to identify the development of acute neuromuscular loss of function in patients with critical illness and respiratory failure receiving mechanical ventilation. ICU patients admitted to the University of Colorado Hospital will be screened for eligibility and enrollment in the study to receive weekly measurements of nerve and muscle function through nerve conduction studies (NCS), muscle ultrasound tests, and concentric needle electromyography (EMG) tests.
The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of copper linens on hospital acquired infections and drug resistant bacteria.
The main intention of this study is to compare two ultrasound-guided central venous catheterization procedures namely: real-time, ultrasound-guided, in plane axillary vein catheterization and real-time, ultrasound-guided, out of plane jugular vein catheterization in terms of venipuncture, catheterization success, early mechanical complication and catheter-related infection rate in mechanically ventilated patients admitted to the intensive care unit.
The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of conducting a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with melatonin for prevention of delirium in critically ill adult patients. The investigators hypothesize that melatonin, administered on a scheduled nightly basis during ICU admission, will be efficacious and safe for the prevention of delirium in critically ill adults.