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Filter by:This study is designed to investigate whether the adoption of the use of a range of wound care products from a single manufacturer makes training in appropriate product selection more effective and results in more accurate selection of the appropriate product for the wound and for the patient's lifestyle, thereby incurring less waste and reducing the number of referrals by the community nursing team to the Tissue Viability Team. One community nursing team will switch to using a full range of dressings and compression products from BSN medical UK for three months. Nurse training on the products will be given and nurse competencies and confidence in woundcare and appropriate product selection will be tested at the start and end of the study. The number and type of referrals to the Tissue Viability Team will be measured. Total anonymised data on numbers of referrals, wound closure, numbers of wounds and quantity and cost of products used will be collected and compared with the historical record for three months prior to the study. Patients will complete a Quality of Life questionnaire at enrolment and exit from the study. Patients for whom BSN medical UK products are not appropriate or not desired by the patient will not be enrolled and will receive the usual range of products available to the community nursing team.
The investigators hypothesize that subjects undergoing liver resection and who are exposed preoperatively to high illuminance blue spectrum light will exhibit reduced organ injury, specifically liver dysfunction, than subjects exposed to standard ambient white fluorescent light.
This study evaluates the three, six, and twelve month patient reported outcomes of people admitted two trauma centres in western Canada over a four month period. Participants are evaluated using the Trauma Outcome Profile and a custom survey instrument.
The primary objective of this investigation is to evaluate changes on Peri-Wound skin from baseline to termination when using two different wound dressings The secondary objectives are to evaluate pain before, during, and after dressing removal from baseline to termination
This is a phase II, pragmatic, prospective, randomized, double-blind, adaptive clinical trial examining the efficacy of statins and aspirin in the reduction of acute lung injury and venous thromboembolism in patients with fibrinolysis shutdown.
This study evaluates the use of corticosteroids acutely as an adjuvant treatment of the high ankle sprain. Subjects will receive either a corticosteroid or a local anesthetic injection.
This exploratory study aims to identify the most promising biomarkers that alone or in combination might predict development of mood disorders [i.e., major depression (MD], cognitive disorders [i.e., executive function deficits (EFD)], and functional impairment following repetitive/mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI).
The aim of this study is to establish AKI incidence in patients who are undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy and to identify the potential risk factors associated with the development of AKI.
THIS IS THE SECOND PART OF A 2-PART STUDY. The purpose of the first part of this study was to determine the safety and tolerability of ascending doses of valproic acid (also known as Depacon) administered as intravenous infusion (IV) in doses ranging from 15 mg/kg to 250 mg/kg in healthy subjects. ID: VPA-C-002 The second part of the study will also be to determine the safety and tolerability of single ascending doses of valproic acid administered as IV in trauma subjects with hemorrhagic shock.
The aim of the study is to assess the efficacy and safety of Synacthène® versus placebo in the treatment of post-dural puncture syndrome in patients receiving epidural analgesia, spinal analgesia, or combined spinal-epidural analgesia for labour.