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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to study the biomarkers in subjects before and after sports-induced traumatic brain injury. The assay will be studied in a sample population of subjects over the age of 18 participating in college sports.
Hypothesis: Continuously monitor quality indicators with a specific method (CUSUM: Cumulative Sum) will increase the awareness of health care staff in maternity and permit rapid detection of a small dip in performance in order to enable prompt investigations and corrective measures when necessary , which decrease maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity. Objective: To assess the impact of Cumulative Sum (CUSUM) charts used as a maternity dashboard to decreases maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity. Design: Step-wedge cluster-randomized trial with prospective analyses of collected data. Setting: ten Maternity departments in France. Population: Data from 60 000 women and infants could be collected over 2 year's period. Method: Cumulative sum (CUSUM) charts were used to monitor the rate of quality indicators previously selected by Delphi method. Main Outcome Measures: Composite outcome that considers multiple clinical events : mortality, adverse outcomes for women and newborn.
The purpose of this study is to compare arthrodesis of the first TMT-joint to extraarticular bridge plate fixation of the same joint in acute Lisfranc injuries.
The purpose is to compare time to healing using absorbent foam silver dressing (Mepilex Ag) compared to a silver sulfadiazine (SSD) 1% cream in the treatment of partial thickness burn injuries.284 in-patients in 8-12 centres in China will be evaluated. Treatment period will be up to 4 weeks with either Mepilex Ag or SSD.
The proposed study is designed as a phase Ib open-label, dose-escalation, multicenter study evaluating the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of StrataGraft skin tissue in promoting the healing of the deep partial-thickness component of complex skin defects. The proposed study population will include patients with 3-49% Total Body Surface Area (TBSA) complex skin defects including a deep partial-thickness component resulting from thermal injury. The study has been designed to focus on the evaluation of safety and tolerability of prolonged exposure to increasing amounts of a single application of StrataGraft skin tissue, while also assessing the potential for StrataGraft tissue to promote healing of the deep partial-thickness component of these complex skin defects as an alternative to donor site harvesting and autografting. Targeted enrollment for this study is up to 30 patients with complex skin defects due to thermal burns which require surgical excision and autografting. Subjects will be sequentially enrolled in two cohorts of increasing treatment area receiving StrataGraft skin tissue that has been stored refrigerated prior to clinical use. A third cohort will receive StrataGraft skin tissue which has been stored cryopreserved and thawed in the operating room just prior to grafting.
Tampere Traumatic head and brain injury study is a prospective study aiming to explore neuroradiological, neuropsychological, neurological and biochemical aspects of mild traumatic brain injury (mtbi). The main interest is on factors that effect to the outcome after mtbi. The study is conducted in Tampere University Hospital's emergency department between the 1st of August 2010 and 31st of July 2013.
The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the utility of the Banyan UCH-L1/GFAP Detection Assay as an aid in the evaluation of suspected traumatic brain injury (Glasgow Coma Scale score 9-15) in conjunction with other clinical information within 12 hours of injury to assist in determining the need for a CT scan of the head.
The care of patients with sepsis and trauma requires the delivery of appropriate definitive care in the early stages of the illness. Hospitals with limited resources, those in rural and underserved areas of South Carolina, may be unable to consistently provide optimal care to these patients. In addition, the shortage of specialists nationally makes it more difficult for these hospitals to recruit and retain the specialists needed. Patients in these areas continue to pay the rural penalty of poorer outcomes. This study provides specialists' level care through telemedicine consults to rural emergency departments in rural areas of SC to improve outcomes for these patients. The CREST study is a project that specifically addresses the need to bring health care to rural communities in SC, as well as evaluates methods and tests technology to implement this care in rural communities. The CREST study uses telemedicine remotely from MUSC to rural community hospitals to provide rural community physicians care from specialists for trauma and sepsis, which are both high acuity, difficult to treat conditions. CREST is a multi-site trial of telemedicine services to meet rural patients' and providers' need for expert evaluation and management of sepsis and trauma. The specific aims of CREST are: 1. To test the hypothesis that a telemedicine program including education and clinical consultation between a tertiary care academic medical center and rural, local hospitals will significantly improve key treatment decisions and outcome measures in sepsis and trauma. 2. To test the hypothesis that the differences in ISS and time to antibiotics for trauma and sepsis patients exposed to telemedicine intervention and those without the intervention matched on propensity scores are not due to unmeasured confounders. CREST seeks new solutions to rural health disparities, to advance technology, create and retain jobs and address important research opportunities by combining implementation of a novel, trans disciplinary clinical program with rigorous, mixed methods scientific evaluation including clinical, process, and economic outcome measures. The impact on both science and quality healthcare outcomes is broad and CREST has far reaching implications for addressing rural health disparities for acute, life-threatening illnesses.
This study investigates the treatment of acute pain, an unpleasant feeling caused by an injury. The overall purpose of the study is to gain more information that the pain relief medicine Penthrox(Methoxyflurane) administered using the Penthrox Inhaler(a distinctive green, whistle like object that you breathe through) is safe and works at relieving pain in patients aged 12 years and older who are admitted to a hospital Emergency Department with a minor injury (known as trauma).
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of the Spiracur SNaP® Wound Care System for the treatment of acute trauma and acute surgical excision wounds. The secondary purpose will be to compare the prospective patients to retrospectively treated acute trauma wounds to further evaluate efficacy and safety.