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Filter by:This study plans to learn more about people who are sick in the hospital with a lung infection, or respiratory failure. Respiratory failure, or severe lung failure, is a life-threatening disease. When it happens, the lungs have trouble carrying out their normal function of getting oxygen into the blood, and removing carbon dioxide from the body. Investigators are conducting this study to see what drinking too much alcohol, using tobacco products, or using drugs (both legal and illegal) may do to lung infections and respiratory failure. Subjects are asked to be in this research study because they are thought to have a lung infection and may also have respiratory failure. Alcohol, tobacco, and drug use have been linked to lung infections, respiratory failure, and even death, but the reasons for this aren't known. People who use unhealthy amounts of alcohol, tobacco, and or drugs may be more at risk for lung infections, and for severe complications due to lung infection. Subject participation is important whether or not you use alcohol and or drugs.
The purpose of this study is to identify and use patient centered outcomes to compare narrow-spectrum and broad-spectrum antibiotics for the treatment of common acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) in children.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Ombitasvir (OBV)/paritaprevir (PTV)/ritonavir (r) with sofosbuvir (SOF) with or without ribavirin (RBV) in adults with Genotype 2 Chronic Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection or Genotype 3 HCV infection with or without Cirrhosis.
The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of using thermal images to diagnose bacterial pneumonia instead of a chest x-ray in the future. More specifically, the objectives of this study are: 1) to determine if thermal imaging, using a commercial thermal camera can detect areas of heat emitted from the chest in similar locations to where a chest X-ray shows focal consolidation consistent with bacterial pneumonia; 2) to evaluate whether changes in heat emitted from the chest changes over time if it is possible to obtain serial images of the chest.
The objective is to determine if data from the National Insurance Health card (giving antibiotics and hospitalizations in the past 18 months) allow to predict the individual risk of antibiotic resistance and to identify population groups for which probabilistic antibiotics regimen of urinary tract infection could be simplified
This Phase I multi-center placebo controlled study is conducted in healthy women with a history of recurrent urinary tract infections (UTI) aged between 18 and 70 years.
The telavancin observational use registry (TOUR) will collect data to support study of the efficacy, safety, and pattern of use of telavancin in hospital-based inpatients and in outpatients being treated in infusion centers who are receiving clinician directed telavancin therapy.
Multicentric epidemiological non-comparative study in France characterising evolution of anal Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and related lesions and evaluating markers associated with the observed evolution. Estimated enrolment: 500 Principal Outcomes - Detection of high-grade cytological and histological anal lesions by high resolution anoscopy - Spontaneous regression of high-grade anal lesions - Detection of anal HPV infection Intervention (procedure): - Patient medical interview (initial inclusion visit, Month 12 and Month 24 follow-up visits and if applicable Month 6 and Month 18 control visits) - Standard proctologic examination with digital rectal examination and 2 anal swabs (initial inclusion visit, Month 12 and Month 24 follow-up visits and if applicable Month 6 and Month 18 control visits) - High resolution anoscopy (initial inclusion visit, Month 12 and Month 24 follow-up visits and if applicable Month 6 and Month 18 control visits) Only if lesion suggestive of Anal Intraepithelial Neoplasia (AIN) detected during High Resolution Anoscopy (HRA): - anal biopsy(ies) during HRA Only if high-grade lesion: - HRA biannually
A newly 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine was developed with promising safety and immunogenicity demonstrated in the phase III trial in China. A large scale, double blind, randomized, PNEUMOVAX 23 (Merck & Co., Inc.) controlled phase 3 clinical trial was conducted.
This study is a collaboration between New York Presbyterian (NYP)-Columbia and NYP-Cornell that seeks to evaluate the use of topical vancomycin and its reduction on surgical site infection (SSI) in neurosurgical procedures. Adult patients undergoing neurosurgery at either institution will be eligible for participation in this randomized control trial. Patients randomized to the treatment group will receive 2g of vancomycin applied as a powder or paste to the wound site and/or bone flap. Subjects in the control group will receive the current standard of care without topical vancomycin. All subjects will undergo swabbing of the anterior nares and the surgical site prior to surgery, once 10-14 days following the operation and 90 days following the operation. The primary outcome measure will be surgical site infection, assessed daily throughout the hospital stay, at the first follow-up visit, and by telephone at 14-30 days and 90 days (+/- 7 days). Secondary outcomes will include length of hospital stay, length of intensive care stay, rate of reoperation and patient mortality. In addition, systemic vancomycin levels will be assessed at 6 hours and 20 hours postoperatively in each patient. Patients who have an external ventricular drain in place will have vancomycin levels assessed daily. In patients who have cranial drains placed, vancomycin concentrations will be analyzed from daily in wound drainage. Skin and nasal flora will be analyzed to assess the impact of topical vancomycin on the patient microbiome. Although there has been a decrease in the incidence of infections following craniotomy secondary to prophylactic intravenous antibiotics, proper sterile techniques, and other interventions, SSIs continue to significantly impact morbidity, mortality, and cost burden. Although never studied in neurosurgical procedures other than instrumented spine, the application of topical vancomycin to the surgical site prior to wound closure has demonstrated a reduction in SSIs in spine, cardiac and ophthalmologic procedures. The benefits of using prophylactic vancomycin topically, as opposed to intravenously, include reduced systemic levels of the drug, and therefore, a decreased probability of adverse events related to the drug, such as inducing resistance among the native flora. The investigators propose a single-blinded randomized control trial to evaluate the effectiveness of topical vancomycin in reducing SSIs rates following neurosurgical procedures.