There are about 25560 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Germany. 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.
To present a proposal for a set of outcome measurement instruments (OMIs) of post intensive care syndrome (PICS) in settings of outpatient healthcare service.
This study aims to evaluate the clinical performance, quality of larynx visualization and difficulty of videolaryngoscopic intubation in patients with a reduced mouth opening (1.0 to 3.0 cm) utilizing the latest generation of GlideScopeTM Spectrum low profile laryngoscopy system.
The long-term outcome of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains poor, with less than 30% of patients achieving long lasting remission or cure. This poor outcome is largely due to refractoriness to induction chemotherapy as well as relapses during and after completion of intensive induction and consolidation therapy. In patients with refractory/relapsed AML hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) is currently the only treatment option offering a prospect of cure but outcome is heavy influenced by the remission status before allo-HCT. Therefore, patients are typically treated with salvage regimens based on high dose cytarabine (HiDAC) combined with mitoxantrone, fludarabine or idarubicin. Nevertheless, the remission rates remain poor and currently there is no accepted standard salvage regimen. Recent studies indicate that combination chemotherapy including HiDAC and gemtuzumab ozogamicin (GO) at a dose of 3 mg/m² leads to improved response rates in refractory AML. Proteasome inhibition with bortezomib appears to be a promising treatment strategy to restore chemo-sensitivity via EZH2 stabilisation. This study aims at improving response rates in refractory/ relapsed AML by combining high dose cytarabine, gemtuzumab ozogamicin (GA) and bortezomib (B). During this phase II study efficacy of B-GA is assessed in comparison to matched historical controls using the Matched Threshold Crossing (MTC)-approach. If results are promising, a subsequent randomized phase III study is intended to assess the efficacy of GA with or without bortezomib.
MOMENTUM is a randomized, double-blind, active control Phase 3 trial intended to confirm the differentiated clinical benefits of the investigational drug momelotinib (MMB) versus danazol (DAN) in symptomatic and anemic participants who have previously received an approved Janus kinase inhibitor (JAKi) therapy for myelofibrosis (MF). The purpose of this clinical study is to compare the effectiveness and safety of MMB to DAN in treating and reducing: 1) disease related symptoms, 2) the need for blood transfusions and 3) splenomegaly, in adults with primary MF, post-polycythemia vera MF or post-essential thrombocythemia MF. The study is planned in countries including, but not limited to: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom (UK) and United States (US). Participants must be symptomatic with a Myelofibrosis Symptom Assessment Form (MFSAF) version (v) 4.0 Total Symptom Score of >= 10 at screening, and be anemic with hemoglobin (Hgb) < 10 gram/deciliter (g/dL). For participants with ongoing JAKi therapy at screening, JAKi therapy must be tapered over a period of at least 1 week, followed by a 2-week non-treatment washout interval prior to randomization. Participants will be randomized 2:1 to orally self-administer blinded treatment: MMB plus placebo or DAN plus placebo. Participants randomized to receive MMB who complete the randomized treatment period to the end of Week 24 may continue to receive MMB in the open-label extended treatment period to the end of Week 204 (a total period of treatment of approximately 4 years) if the participants tolerates and continues to benefit from MMB. Participants randomized to receive DAN may cross-over to MMB open-label treatment in the following circumstances: at the end of Week 24 if they complete the randomized treatment period; or at the end of Week 24 if they discontinue treatment with DAN but continue study assessments and do not receive prohibited medications including alternative active anti-MF therapy; or at any time during the randomized treatment period if they meet the protocol-defined criteria for radiographically confirmed symptomatic splenic progression. Participants randomized to receive DAN who are receiving clinical benefit at the end of Week 24 may choose to continue DAN therapy up to Week 48. The comparator treatment, DAN, is an approved medication in the US and in some other countries and is recommended by national guidelines as a treatment for anemia in MF.
Maintaining organ perfusion is the key to successful intensive care medicine. Shock is the most dangerous microcirculatory disorder and one of the most hazardous and lethal conditions of critically ill patients still showing high mortality rates. However, there are still ongoing controversies, how to assess microcirculation, how to predict outcome in time and how to guide specific therapy. Macrocirculation does not reflect microcirculation. Microcirculation reflects organ perfusion and correlates with the outcome. There is growing evidence that microcirculatory parameters are powerful tools to predict the outcome after cardiac arrest. Several guidelines use it as a target to guide therapy, but these recommendations base only on supporting evidence of low quality. Lactate is a late reflector of reduced organ perfusion and is of limited value for time-critical decision-making and their value as a therapeutic target. Sublingual sidestream dark-field (SDF) - measurement is a non-invasive method that reliably reflects organ perfusion. The last generation of microcirculation assessment tools are easy to use hand-held devices that use an automatic algorithm. In consequence, microcirculation has become a directly detectable physiological compartment. However, systematic investigations about this technology in shock are still lacking. DAMIS determines the value of directly assessed microcirculation on outcome in different types of shock. Therefore, this multicenter study will recruit up to 200 patients in shock. After the first measurement, patients will be randomized either to intervention or to control. The intervention consists in knowing microcirculatory parameters. A checklist will assist the treating physicians of the interventional group in explaining microcirculatory values and offering possible treatment options. Patients in the control group will be measured as well, but results will not be communicated to the treating physician.
The LIPCAL-ALS study (NCT02306590) has provided preliminary evidence that a high-caloric nutrition might prolong survival in fast-progressing ALS patients. Since increasing the amount of calories of the intervention might possibly increase the beneficial effect, the investigators seek to investigate whether an ultra-high caloric diet (UHCD), featuring the double amount of calories compared to LIPCAL-ALS, will be well tolerated by ALS patients and may serve as an intervention for a potential LIPCALII study. For this purpose, the investigators will compare two different UHCDs (one fat-rich and one carbohydrate-rich) with regard to safety and tolerability over a time frame of 4 weeks. A third group will receive the original diet from LIPCAL, and a fourth group will receive no intervention (control group).
Acupuncture has been shown in several meta-analyses and clinical studies, in different surgical settings and chronic back pain, to be a safe adjuvant option for postoperative pain treatment. In this study, the investigator hypothesize that acupuncture can decrease postoperative pain intensity and amount of given analgesics, and accelerate recovery of bowel motility, in patients after open radical prostatectomy. The investigator will also investigate whether or not acupuncture with needle skin penetration is more efficacious than acupressure.
Retrospective, representative registry for quality assurance on diagnosis and therapy of secondary immunodeficiencies (SID) in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or multiple myeloma (MM)
The objective of the trial is to evaluate the efficacy of dasiglucagon in reducing glucose requirements in children with persistent congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) requiring continuous intravenous (IV) glucose administration to prevent/manage hypoglycemia.
The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the implant fixation of the NANOS™ Neck Preserving Hip Stem (OHST Medizintechnik AG, distributed by Smith & Nephew GmbH, Marl, Germany) by measuring the migration of the implant using the model-based roentgen stereophotogrammetric analysis (MBRSA).