There are about 9403 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Switzerland. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
ID/IDA affects many young children in Africa. Vaccines provide tremendous benefits in LMIC; however, they currently fail to reach their full potential. We need to better understand the causes of vaccine failure, in order to develop new strategies to improve vaccine immunogenicity. This study will contribute to children's health by: (1) providing updated guidelines to better define the prevalence of ID/IDA in early infancy, and its safe and effective control using iron; and (2) providing a new approach to improve response to pediatric vaccines in LMIC, by ensuring adequate iron status at time of vaccination.
Phase 2 Study Investigating the Efficacy of AMT-101 in Subjects with Chronic Antibiotic-resistant Pouchitis
This is open-label, multicenter, international study, assessing the efficacy and safety of Trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) in participants with or without brain metastasis (BMs), with previously-treated advanced/metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer whose disease has progressed on prior anti-HER2-based regimens and who received no more than 2 lines/regimens of therapy in the metastatic setting (excluding tucatinib).
Preoperative gastric sonography may provide a validated, reliable, fast, and cost-efficient approach to assess aspiration risks in both elective and emergency patients. Practiced sonographers are able to perform point-of-care gastric sonography in a few minutes, thus severe delay in daily clinical practice should not be expected. Nevertheless, how this highly sensitive and specific tool should be best established in daily clinical practice is still unclear. There are no preexisting structured and validated trainings for this specific point-of-care ultrasound application. To address these issues, all patients with increased aspiration risk at the Institute of Anaesthesiology in Winterthur will be evaluated for participation during a one year recruiting period. Participants will receive a preoperative gastric ultrasound by a trained professional. The aim of this investigation is to validate our structural training and proof the importance and effectiveness of this diagnostic tool to lay ground for improvement of anesthesiologic management and presumably patient safety in patients with an increased risk of a pulmonary aspiration.
To investigate feasibility and safety of intraoperative bile duct clearance by sphincter of Oddi balloon dilatation via cystic duct at cholecystectomy. Primary endpoint: rate of successful bile duct stone clearance (feasibility). Secondary endpoints (safety): rate of peri-interventional complications (injury to the common bile duct, bleeding, injury to surrounding organs: stomach, duodenum, liver) and short-term postoperative complications (bile leak, cholangitis, lipasaemia, pancreatitis, pneumonia). Duration of procedure. Length of hospital stay.
Paramedics and EMT will be recruited among four Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in Switzerland to manage a 10-minutes simulation-based adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest scenario in teams of two. Depending on randomization, each team will manage the scenario according either to their current approach (30 compressions with 2 bag-mask ventilations), or to the experimental approach (continuous compressions since the start of CPR except for rhythm analysis and shock delivering, with early insertion of an i-gel® device to deliver asynchronous ventilations). The main hypothesis is that early insertion of i-gel could improve CCF during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, with a reasonable time to first effective ventilation.
The study participants will take 3 different doses of iron supplements at 8 am, on 3 different days. By taking blood samples in the morning and afternoon, the investigators will determine the effects of the iron supplements on plasma hepcidin and compare them to baseline plasma hepcidin values.
LIMITFOOD is a randomized clinical intervention study that investigates the effects of two different intermittent fasting protocols compared to a control group on the health of normal- and overweight adults. A total of 72 participants will be randomized into three equally sized groups: an alternate day fasting, a time-restricted feeding and a control group.
Sleep apneic episodes increase after general anaesthesia up to the third postoperative night. A mandibular advancement device, called MAD, is a small device that is inserted in the patient's mouth during the night and allows the advancement of the mandible, preventing sleep apneic episodes. The objective of this randomized controlled trial is to determine whether a MAD reduces the impact of general anaesthesia on the increase of the sleep apneic episodes in the postoperative period. All patients will have their sleep-related respiratory data measured using a portable respiratory polygraphy recorder (ResMed Embletta® system). This portable recorder allows a non-invasive recording of nasal airflow through a nasal cannula, oxygen saturation (SpO2) via finger pulse oximetry, respiratory efforts through thoracic and abdominal belts, and body position.
With this cross-sectional study of adult subjects with neuromuscular disease in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, we aim to explore MI-E adherence using self-report questionnaires and device data in order to identify the factors that influence the pattern of MI-E use and satisfaction with the treatment. Determining potential barriers to regular long-term home use of MI-E could help in identifying the patients who would benefit most from this therapy.