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Filter by:The primary hypothesis in this trial is that the treatment with vericiguat 10 mg or 15 mg in patients with HFpEF improves the KCCQ PLS (Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire Physical limitation score) compared to placebo after 24 weeks of treatment.
Aim:to evaluate the efficacy of postoperative gum chewing on the recovery of bowel motility after cesarean section.
Background: Unpredictable laryngoscopic difficulty remains a dramatic challenge for anaesthesiologists. Ultrasound (US) based airway assessment has been recently proposed as a useful tool in adjunct to clinical methods, but to date few studies are available about the potential role of ultrasound in difficult airway evaluation. The aim of this study is to determine the correlation between the sonographic measurements of anterior cervical soft tissues's thickness and Cormack-Lehane grade view at direct laryngoscopy in patients with normal clinical screening tests. Design: Prospective, single blinded, observational study. Number of patients: 300 adult patients Methods: All patients are assessed before surgery to evaluate clinical evidence of difficult airways. Simultaneous ultrasound measures of the anterior cervical soft tissues are performed. At induction of anaesthesia the laryngoscopic view is graded by a different anaesthetist, blinded to the ultrasound assessments. Statistical analysis: Receiver operating characteristic curves (ROC) are used to determine the "difficulty prediction capability" of each sonographic measurement and to assess the optimal cut-off scores To allow for comparisons between "restricted-difficult" airway and "easy" airway groups, a two-sided Student's t-test and Fisher's exact test is employed as appropriate. The results will be averaged (mean ± standard deviation SD) for each parameter for continuous data. Values of p < 0.05 are considered as statistically significant.
The primary purpose of this study is to determine the differences in PFS for participants who have been receiving brigatinib as ALK inhibitor therapy for ALK+NSCLC compared to those participants receiving alectinib, ceritinib, lorlatinib, or other ALK inhibitors that may become available during study treatment.
After sustaining severe trauma to the chest, patients will often bleed into the chest cavity (pleural space) which is called hemothorax or they may also experience air leakage within the chest cavity in combination with the bleeding (hemopneumothorax). These conditions are treated with the insertion of a tube into the chest called a chest tube (CT). Insertion of the CT is very painful for the patient due to the size or diameter of the tube. Alternative to CT is a small percutaneous catheter (PC), pigtail or non-pigtail. At Banner-University of Arizona Tucson Campus (B-UATC) investigator prefers inserting a small pigtail catheter for the management of hemothorax or hemopnuemothorax. The primary purpose of our study is to see if the use of the PC is just as effective as CT in terms of removing leaked blood and/or air from the chest cavity.
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is one of several herpesviruses that cause disease in humans. EBV virus has an oncogenic potential, and it has been associated with the development of a wide range of cancers. Previous studies have shown a close association between EBV and Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) in transplant recipients. As part of a preventive approach against PTLD, several transplantation units now monitor the occurrence of EBV-DNAemia after transplantation. However, there is little evidence to guide this strategy; nor is there consensus concerning either the best specimen to use for EBV analysis (whole blood or plasma). In this study investigators aim to optimise and validate a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-test for EBV-DNA on, respectively, whole blood, plasma and a combination of plasma and lymphocytes. The investigators wish to determine which of the three tests best predicts current and future risk of development of EBV-related diseases such as mononucleosis and PTLD.
The study aim is to determine whether simulation based learning would improve senior anesthesiology residents' patient care performance during the insertion and management of cerebrospinal fluid drainage catheters when compared to interactive problem based learning (PBL) using the Anesthetist's Nontechnical Skills Global rating scale
One-lung ventilation (OLV) is required for the most of thoracic surgery to facilitate surgical visualization by collapsing the lung. The double-lumen tube (DLT) is the commonly used device for OLV. The objective of this study was to compare the accuracy of the distances between vocal cords to carina of trachea and formula base on patient's height as a guide for the intubation of a Left-sided Double-lumen tube
Over the past decades, advances in treatment have led to an increasing number of children who survive cancer, resulting in a growing population of childhood cancer survivors. After end of cancer treatment on common protocols survivors are enrolled in non-harmonized follow-up programs with frequent visits and blood samples. However, the evidence for the value of these follow-up programs with respect to the effect on detecting relapse and the effects on overall survival is scarce. The aim of the study is to give a comprehensive description of the detection mode of relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), including symptoms and blood test results. Further, we aim to evaluate if the mode of detection affects survival.
This study is aimed at assessing the impact of short-term (3 days) exogenous sialic acid supplementation on endogenous biomarkers of sialic acid metabolism in NANS deficient patients.