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Filter by:This study was conducted to investigate the effects of daily supplementation of GS-3K8 or GINst15 on acute respiratory illness (ARI) in healthy subjects.
This is a single center study to evaluate the pharmacokinetics of ARMS-I a formulation that incorporates cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC), administered once as a single dose of three sprays orally, followed by multiple dosing (3x daily oral sprays) over days 3-6 and then a repeat pharmacokinetic study during the final oral dose administered as the first dose on day 7 to ascertain CPC accumulation.
This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of vapendavir treatment of laboratory-confirmed and symptomatic HRV infection of the upper respiratory tract in allogeneic and autologous stem cell transplant subjects. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of vapendavir on laboratory-confirmed HRV upper-respiratory tract infection in HSCT patients, as measured by viral load changes, worsening of upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) to lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI), duration of clinical symptoms, the occurrence of supplemental oxygen use, duration of viral shedding, hospital admission and duration of hospitalization, incidence of secondary bacterial infection, and mortality rates. Additionally, the safety and tolerability of vapendavir, and the vapendavir plasma levels achieved in the HSCT population, and the profile of viral resistance development will also be assessed.
Inappropriate antibiotic use is a major public health concern. Excessive exposure to antibiotics results in emergence and spread of drug-resistant bacteria, potentially avoidable adverse drug reactions, and increased healthcare utilization and cost. As antibiotic prescribing in emergency departments and urgent care centers remains unchecked, national professional organizations including the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology (SHEA), and an Executive Order from the President of the United States, recommend expansion of antimicrobial stewardship to these ambulatory care settings. The goal of antimicrobial stewardship is to effectively promote judicious antibiotic use in all healthcare settings, yet stewardship programs have not achieved their potential in terms of either reach or effectiveness. Reach has been limited by implementation mostly in inpatient settings; at the same time, recent critical experiments in behavioral science suggest that the effectiveness of existing stewardship programs could be greatly augmented through inclusion of behavioral nudges, benchmarked audit and feedback, and peer-to-peer comparisons.
We aim to show that systematic ultrasonography performed in ventilated patients suspected of ventilation-acquired pneumonia could improve the accuracy of diagnostic of pneumonia, and helps defining the diagnostic of tracheobronchitis when lower respiratory tract infection is considered. Chest CT scan is often performed before or just after admission in ICU, and usually show abnormalities that are revealed later on standard radiographs. This last exam is traditionally considered as the gold standard to prove new pulmonary infiltrates, but the correlation with parenchymal consolidation is pretty low, and lead to over-diagnosing pneumonia, thus leading to a massive and maybe sometimes unconsidered prescription of antibiotic therapy. Lung ultrasonography conducted systematically within the 3 first days after suspcion of pneumonia could help making the difference between real infection-linked lesions, and banal abnormalities following the hydric inflation of intra-thoracic organs, for instance pulmonary edema or pleural effusion. An independent evaluation using lung ultrasound, and analysis of CT scan acquisition when performed, compared with the physician in charge of the patient appreciation by suggesting him to provide his own probability of pneumonia upon routine clinical and biological datas.
This is a performance study to test the sensitivity and specificity of the BioFire FilmArray Respiratory Panel (RP) 2. The purpose of this study is to prospectively collect and test residual NPS specimens and generate performance data to support regulatory classification of the FilmArray RP2 as an in vitro diagnostic (IVD) in the US, European Union (EU), Canada, and other regions.
The purpose of this study is to validate the diagnostic accuracy of a novel host-response based diagnostic tool for differentiating between bacterial and viral etiologies in adult patients aged 18 years and older with clinical suspicion of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI)
Rationale: Fluid overload is a common complication in children who are admitted to the pediatric intensive care for mechanical ventilation. Acute lung infection is a frequent cause for admission to the PICU and forms an uniform group with a single organ failure. In these critically ill children, fluid overload is associated with adverse outcome. Restricting the volume of fluids already in an early stage of ICU admission may prevent fluid overload during mechanical ventilation and thus improve clinical outcome. However, at the same time fluid restriction may interfere with appropriate energy and macronutrient intake that is needed for recovery. Objective: The main goal of this pilot study is to evaluate the feasibility of a restrictive fluid management protocol and investigate its effect on the occurrence of fluid overload in mechanically ventilated children with acute infectious lung disease. Study design: Single-center prospective randomized feasibility and pilot study in preparation of a multi-center randomized controlled trial (RCT). Study population: Mechanically ventilated children with (suspicion of) acute infectious lung disease admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of the Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam. Intervention: Patients receive either liberal (control group) or a restrictive (experimental group) fluid treatment, while ensuring appropriate caloric intake. Main study parameters/endpoints: Primary outcomes are cumulative fluid balance and body weight during the first week of mechanical ventilation. Secondary outcomes (in preparation of the larger multi-center RCT) include: mortality, duration of mechanical ventilation and oxygenation indices. To determine the feasibility, in- and exclusion rate, adherence to treatment arms, need for fluid bolus, need for diuretics and hemodynamic indices as well as energy and protein intake are studied. Both fluid management protocols reflect a variant of current clinical practice, hence will not provide extra burden or risk to patients included in the study. Patients will be randomized to either of the fluid protocol arms on admission to the PICU (at start of mechanical ventilation). Patients included in the restrictive fluid treatment arm might have direct benefit from the study if indeed fluid overload is less common in this group.
This study will investigate whether there is a population-level association between circulating respiratory viruses and NHS hospital admissions for acute vascular events using data from national infection surveillance and Hospital Episode Statistics.
This study evaluates the statistics of influenza and acute respiratory viral infections (ARVI) management in outpatient sites in Russia, Armenia, Moldova and Georgia (epidemiology: disease severity and bacterial exacerbations; patients demography; treatment duration and timelines; safety; quality of treatment) in routine clinical practice with focus on drug therapy and usage of interferons' inducers.