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Filter by:Many drugs with various mechanisms of action are used for postcaesarean pain relief. Although the response to pain relief is sometimes believed to be individual, it is very important to establish the most effective with the least adverse effects type of oral analgesia for women after caesarean section. Optimal pain control post-caesarean section will benefit not only the mother and her baby, but also a healthcare system. Optimal pain control may shorten the time spent in hospital after caesarean section and, therefore, reduce healthcare costs.
To evaluate the safety and exploratory efficacy of 1.0mg of Luminate® in patients with Intermediate Non-Exudative Macular Degeneration
This study evaluates the effectiveness of ginger on the incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing gynaecological surgery. Half the patients were given an oral dose of ginger preoperatively and half received placebo.
Background: Physiotherapists (PTs) in primary health care manage patients with a large variation in medical diagnosis, age, functional status, disability and prognosis. Lack of knowledge and systematically collected data about patients treated by PTs in primary health care has prompted this longitudinal observational physiotherapy project in Norway. This paper aims to describe a method for developing a database of patients managed by PTs in primary health care to study patients' characteristics, treatment courses and prognostic factors. The study is a longitudinal observational project, following patients through physiotherapy treatment periods in primary health care in Norway and until one year after inclusion. The project involves both private practice and municipally employed PTs working in primary health care in eight municipalities in Norway. The participants are recruited to three different parts of the project depending on age and whether they are referred to a private practice or a municipally employed PT. All data are recorded electronically, transferred and stored securely. All patients complete extensive questionnaires providing information about demographics, disability and function, pain related variables, treatment and evaluation of treatment as well as clinical tests. The PTs have access to their own patients' data. The investigators have also prepared for linkage to national patient registers and population-based studies to be able to gather further important data. This project will have important implications for physiotherapy services in primary health care. The database already contains almost 3000 patients, and data collection is ongoing. Preliminary analyses suggest that the patients included so far are representative of the larger population of patients treated by private practice or municipally employed PTs in Norway. This large scale prospective physiotherapy project will provide knowledge about the patient groups treated, treatment given as well as short and long term outcome of the patients.
A randomized, double-blind controlled, multicenter study in SLE patients given AKBM-3031or placebo for 24 weeks (randomized period) and followed by an open label extension (OLE) treatment with AKBM-3031 for the next 24 weeks. Patients will be maintained on stable doses of background medications, except for glucocorticoids. Decreases in doses of glucocorticoids will be encouraged during the first 20 weeks of both the randomized and open label extension portions of the trial. Stable doses of glucocorticoids and other background medications are required during weeks 20-22 and 44-48.If indicated by the PI, brief increases in corticosteroids are permitted during the first 20 weeks of both the blinded and open label extension portion of the trial. The increase in prednisone (or equivalent) dose is limited to 2X the back-ground level to a maximum of20 mg/day for a maximum of 1 week (7 days) or to a single administration of intravenous methylprednisolone or equivalent at a maximum dose of 500mg. Stable doses of glucocorticoids and other background medications are required during weeks 20-22 and 44-48
The primary objective of this study is to identify determinants of long-term patient satisfaction after hand reconstruction using silicone metacarpophalangeal arthroplasty (SMPA). The investigators hypothesize that appearance of the hand, ulnar drift, range of motion, pain, hand function and intake of the newer antirheumatic drugs (i.e. biologicals) influence patient satisfaction.
Title: Randomized prospective study comparing the effectiveness of spaced learning to mass learning in microsurgical procedures. Background: Spacing phenomenon occurs when learning outcomes are greater with the teaching process spread out over time (spaced learning), as opposed to having the same total duration of teaching carried out over a single session (mass learning). Spaced learning has been shown to improve explicit memory tasks including free recall, recognition, cued -recall and frequency estimation. It has been used in various medical specialties with promising results and has been shown to be at least as good as mass training in learning clinical skills such as cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and laparoscopy skills. We aim to test the concept of spaced learning in learning delicate and complex skilled procedures like microsurgery. Our hypothesis is that spaced learning is better than mass learning in acquiring microsurgical suturing skills. Methodology: Medical students with no prior exposure to microsurgical training were randomized into control (mass-learning) and treatment (spaced learning) groups. The students were all taught to handle microsurgical instruments and to suture a prefabricated 4mm wide elastic strip under the microscope using Digital Surgicals MicroTrainer. The control group was taught continuously over 8hrs while the treatment group was taught in 2-hour sessions held each week over a span of 4 weeks. The learning outcomes that were measured included duration taken as well as the placement of the sutures in relation to each other, with the latter being objectively assessed with the use of a computer program from Digital Surgicals. In addition to being assessed at the beginning of the sessions, all participants completed another test 1 month after the completion of the sessions.
The aim of the SARI study was to describe biomarkers of predisposition to the development of sarcomas in irradiated territory. This study included 120 patients with sarcoma in irradiated territory and 240 patients who had been treated with radiotherapy for more than 5 years and had not developed sarcoma. Following the sequencing of the exomes of all these patients, the SARI study made it possible to highlight a genetic signature from 11 genes, predictive of the appearance of a sarcoma after a first radiotherapy. This signature is the subject of a patent (BFF 170286 / VF, filed on June 22, 2017). A final validation step with samples that have not been used to optimize this signature is now required. Moreover, it is now necessary to validate if this signature is specific to the predisposition to the development of radiation-induced sarcomas only or if this signature is also valid for the predisposition to the development of all sarcomas, even primary ones. The objective of the PREDISARC study is to evaluate the specificity of this genetic signature (11 genes) with the appearance of sarcomas in irradiated territory compared to a population without sarcoma that has been treated with radiotherapy.
A double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled study will be performed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of treating AR1001 in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease for 26 weeks.
This is an open-label study to evaluate the immunogenicity and safety of raxibacumab in healthy adult male and female subjects. Subjects who have received raxibacumab >= 4 months ago will be enrolled and dosed as follows: A maximum of 25 subjects (to include 3 evaluable female subjects) will receive a second dose of raxibacumab equal to that of the previous dose >= 4 months following the first dose. Subjects will remain in house from Day 0 until Day 1 and will be followed for 70 days after receiving the second dose of raxibacumab. Raxibacumab has been shown to provide improved survival in rabbit and monkey anthrax spore challenge studies. Preliminary data from our rabbit pivotal efficacy study showed significant survival benefit for raxibacumab over placebo. Exposure to anthrax and resulting clinical disease can occur more than once, especially in individuals who do not develop protective immunity. Hence, if clinically indicated for the treatment of anthrax, there may be a requirement for the repeat administration of raxibacumab. The rationale of the study is to evaluate the immunogenicity and safety of repeat administration of raxibacumab with a >= 4 month interval between dosing.