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Filter by:This study seeks to explore the effects for transgender people undergoing surgical interventions of participating in pre/post-surgical therapeutic support groups in order to assess the value of adding these programs to hospital systems that are offering gender-affirming surgeries. Participation in either therapeutic support group is expected to increase subjective well-being, increase perceived social support, and decrease clinically significant mental health symptoms compared to participants' baseline scores. It is expected that perceived social support will mediate the relation between group participation and improved subject well-being and mental health scores. In addition, participation in the post-surgical therapeutic support group is expected to reduce the average number of emergency department visits for participants in the group compared with transgender patients, post-gender-affirming surgery, in the hospital as a whole.
Antimicrobial resistance rates have reached alarming levels and the Worlds Health Organisation (WHO) states it constitutes a serious public health concern by threatening one of the most effective and mortality lowering interventions in modern medicine. Part of the solution to this problem includes minimizing overuse of antibiotics. But clinical signs alone are often not reliable to guide antibiotic treatment decisions and additional tests may be warranted to assist the doctor. Such tests include point-of-care biomarkers of infection like C-reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin (PCT). Targeting antibiotic use to the few patients with a high probability of benefit and withholding in the many with non-serious respiratory infection is a promising strategy and readily implemented in clinical practice. The Procalcitonin guided Antibiotics in Respiratory Infections (PARI) study will assess the effect of a novel point-of-care PCT guided antibiotic stewardship in acute respiratory tract infections in general practice. The overall aim of the PARI study is to reduce antibiotic use in patients with acute respiratory tract infections by targeting antibiotic treatment only to patients with a suspected bacterial etiology and thus likely to benefit from antibiotic therapy. The main research questions are: Does the addition of a point-of-care Procalcitonin test to standard care reduce antibiotic use in primary care? Is the intervention safe for the patients? The PARI study is a pragmatic two-arm (intervention and control (standard care) open randomized non-inferiority trial (up to 1 day difference in recovery) in general practice.
This study is a non-interventional, observational study that will evaluate the natural history of wounds in patients with Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (DEB) for inclusion into the Krystal Biotech Phase III protocol of B-VEC (previously KB103). Wound recurrence and wound size will be evaluated for up to four months.
To evaluate the physiologic effects of an electromagnetic resonator(EMF) on autonomic nervous system tone modulation through measurement of heart rate variability(HRV). Null Hypothesis: An EMF Resonator will not change autonomic nervous system tone and no demonstrable difference in physiological parameters will recorded. Alternative Hypothesis: Using an EMF Resonator will enhance parasympathetic activty as supported by HRV.
The enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) pathway is a well-described evidence-based protocol to optimize patient post-operative recovery. Patients undergoing cesarean hysterectomies are a unique surgical population. These procedures are most commonly performed for patients with placenta accreta spectrum or severe postpartum hemorrhage. In recent studies examining the effectiveness of the ERAS pathway, post-operative cesarean patients experienced decreased average inpatient opioid exposure without an increase in pain scores, early mobilization and nutrition targets without increases in adverse outcomes after program implementation. Post-operative hysterectomy patients with gynecologic indications experienced shorter lengths of stay and decreased opioid consumption. Additionally, patients have significantly higher satisfaction scores. The investigators suspect that this population may also benefit similarly. This research is a pre- and post- study to assess and describe surgical outcomes and parameters surrounding patients' post-operative recovery and experience before and after the ERAS pathway is implemented at a high volume placenta accreta spectrum Center of Excellence.
This phase I trial studies how well lorcaserin works in treating chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in patients with stage I-IV gastrointestinal or breast cancer. Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy is a nerve problem that causes pain, numbness, tingling, swelling, or muscle weakness in different parts of the body. This condition can occur in patients who have received taxane chemotherapy drugs, or the chemotherapy drug oxaliplatin. Lorcaserin may improve chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy by reducing pain, preventing or relieving joint symptoms, and improving balance.
The primary objective of this research is to compare the efficacy of trabecular minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) devices (iStent vs iStent Inject vs Hydrus) for intra ocular pressure (IOP) and anti-glaucoma medication reduction in open angle glaucoma.
The study is set up due to regulatory purposes and to collect routine clinical data of the mobile-bearing implant univation XM. The study is designed as a prospective follow-up study with a historic patient cohort who have been treated with the product under investigation two years ago. This design is selected to quicker realize follow-up data as patients have already been treated in the past. As the mobile version of the implant is not widely used, the study will be set up as a monocentric study in France. The clinical hypothesis of the study is that patients who are treated with the product under investigation have a similar outcome and survival rate in comparison to other established unicondylar knee systems on the market. Comparison for the later evaluation will be taken out of recent orthopaedic registries.
This phase II trial compares two drug therapy plans for the correction of heart function changes (reduced ejection function) in patients who have undergone anthracycline-based treatment for lymphoma, sarcoma, or breast cancer. "Reduced ejection fraction" means the left ventricle of the heart is pumping a reduced blood volume with each heartbeat. Treatment is recommended, and the purpose of this research is to compare two different drug therapy plans (standard therapy with carvedilol and lisinopril and standard therapy with carvedilol and lisinopril plus pravastatin and spironolactone) and their effects on improvement of heart function. All of these drugs are heart medications, and carvedilol and lisinopril are commonly used to improve heart function. Adding pravastatin, a cholesterol lowering drug with additional beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system, and spironolactone, a water pill with additional beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system, may lead to even better (and faster) improvements in heart function.
This study will be a prospective, single center, randomized controlled parallel group open-label trial. Participants with insulin requiring diabetes mellitus who have been offered an organ for living or deceased donor kidney transplantation will be recruited prior to transplantation surgery. Patients will be randomized in a 2:1 fashion to AP (6 patients) and conventional treatment groups (3 patients). At the end of the subject's post-operative in-patient stay, participants will have the option of wearing a blinded CGM at home for 4 weeks while treating themselves with multiple daily injections (MDI).