There are about 3961 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Finland. 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.
This early-stage study is designed to determine the efficacy of the CE-approved, antibacterial, dual-light Lumoral method in periodontitis patients. Improved supragingival plaque control can help to also sustain the subgingival plaque management in the long term. In addition, the device might have a photobiomodulation effect on periodontal tissues.
The aim of the research project is to investigate the neurological, physiological and behavioral underpinnings associated with the development of anorexia nervosa in adolescents. The goal of the project is to enable new ways to both predict the course of the disease and to influence this process.
The aim of the research project is to measure the effectiveness of an early and rapid psychiatric nurse intervention at schools in improving the emotional well-being and functioning of adolescents.
In this clinical one-site investigation the performance and safety of a skin preparation device will be evaluated for removing hyperkeratotic skin prior to further medical treatment. Comfort and pain during skin preparation, as well as performance and safety of device, will be compared to comparators on separate skin areas for every subject.
This study will compare the new medicine IcoSema, which is a combination of insulin icodec and semaglutide, taken once a week, to insulin icodec taken once a week in people with type 2 diabetes. The study will look at how well IcoSema controls blood sugar level in people with type 2 diabetes compared to insulin icodec. Participants will either get IcoSema or insulin icodec. Which treatment participants get is decided by chance. IcoSema and insulin icodec are both new medicines that doctors cannot prescribe. Participants will get IcoSema or insulin icodec, which participants must inject once a week with a pen, which has a small needle, in a skin fold in the thigh, upper arm, or stomach. The study will last for about 1 year and 1 month. Participants will have 21 clinic visits, 31 phone/video calls with the study doctor, and 4 contacts with the site that can either be clinic visits or phone/video calls At 11 clinic visits participants will have blood samples taken. At 7 clinic visits participants cannot eat or drink (except for water) for 8 hours before the visit. Women cannot take part if pregnant, breast-feeding or plan to get pregnant during the study period. Not applicable for China: Participants will be asked to wear a sensor that measures their blood sugar level all the time during a 5 week period at the end of the study.
Patient-centered novel e-health technology and services will lay the foundation for future healthcare systems and services to support health and welfare promotion. Yet, there is a lack of ways to incorporate novel technological innovations into easy-to-use, cost-effective and low workload treatment. The detection of atrial fibrillation (AF) paroxysms and its permanent form as well as the prevention of AF-related strokes are major challenges in cardiology today. AF is often silent or asymptomatic, but the risk of ischemic stroke seems to be similar regardless of the presence or absence of symptoms. CARE-DETECT algorithm development part I will investigate following topics: 1. The usefulness and validity of bed sensor and mobile phone application in rhythm disorder capture compared to gold standard ECG-holter monitoring (Faros ECG) 2. Accuracy of AF detection from PDL data 3. Technical development of algorithms to detect arrhythmia from data collected with these novel devices 4. Development of a pre-processing tool that will evaluate the collected data and generate a preliminary filtered report of the raw data to ease clinician's workload in data handling and rhythm evaluation. CARE-DETECT clinical trial (part II) proposal provides a new concept for low workload for healthcare personnel, high diagnostic yield in silent AF detection and AF burden evaluation. CARE-DETECT protocol proposal seeks to address following issues: 1. Can a combination of actively used smartphone application and passive monitoring with bed sensor (with upstream ECG) - compared to routine care - enhance the detection of AF in patients who are at increased risk of stroke and have undergone a cardiac procedure? 2. What is the actual AF burden in paroxysmal AF patients after the detection of new-onset AF? 3. Can a direct-to-consumer telehealth with integrated cloud-based telecardiology service for medical professionals improve the efficacy of silent AF detection and what is the AF burden in patients suffering of (asymptomatic) paroxysmal AF and secondarily what is the cost-effectiveness of these new screening methods? 4. Additionally, during the hospitalization phase of the study part II PDL data will be collected in the intervention group. PDL data will be analyzed offline with the purpose to develop new methods and will not be used to monitor treatment or for diagnosis.
Premature ventricular contractions (PVC) are common phenomenon and occasionally retrograde conduction from ventricle to atrium occurs and may cause pacemaker mediated tachycardia. In response certain Abbott (former St Jude Medical) pacemakers have a specific PVC response algorithm ''Atrial Pace''. In this algorithm the PVARP (Post Ventricular Atrial Refractory Period) is extended to 480ms but the initial 150ms of the PVARP is deemed absolute. If atrial sensed event occurs after absolute PVARP the PVARP terminates and atrial pace follows after 330ms alert period. Two case reports exists where patients atrial tachycardia were suspected to be induced by this algorithm. In Helsinki University Hospital an index patient with multiple atrial tachycardia episodes was recognized in late 2020 where the cause of the tachycardias was suspected to be the PVC response algorithm ''Atrial Pace''. After programming the algorithm from Atrial Pace to off mode the patient had none atrial tachycardias during 2021. After investigating all the patients with physiological ICD (Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator) or CRT-D (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy) device and analyzing remote monitoring transmissions from the year 2020 we found 25 patients with similar atrial tachycardia episodes possibly induced by the PVC response ''Atrial Pace''.
During hysterectomy bacteria may enter into the peritoneal cavity through vaginal opening and contaminate the healing tissues. The risk for deep infection after hysterectomy is about 5%. By reducing post-hysterectomy infections, it is possible to reduce individual burden of disease in addition to the direct and indirect financial costs. This study primary aim is to assess if prophylactic preoperative use of azithromycin in addition to generally used cefuroxime decreases post-hysterectomy infections as compared to cefuroxime only prophylaxis during 30 days after hysterectomy. Secondary aim is to assess if there is change in post-hysterectomy superficial infections, urinary tract infections, or post-operative fever between the cohorts and to report possible side-effects of the used antibiotics. In addition, the study finds out a possible role of bacterial vaginosis and microbiome n post-hysterectomy infections.
The study compares two medicines for treatment of children born small and who stay small, or with Turner Syndrome, Noonan Syndrome, or idiopathic short stature. The purpose of the study is to see how well treatment with somapacitan works compared to treatment with Norditropin®. Somapacitan is a new medicine, and Norditropin® is a medicine doctors can already prescribe in some countries. The study will last for about 3 years. The participants will either get somapacitan once a week for 3 years or Norditropin® once a day for 1 year followed by somapacitan once a week for 2 years. Which treatment the participants get is decided by chance.
Introduction Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common peripheral nerve entrapment syndrome in Finland and worldwide. Nowadays carpal tunnel release (CTR) surgery is often done in local anaesthesia. Often the most painful event during CTR is the injection of the local anaesthetic. Multiple different methods have been trialed and buffering the local anaesthetic seems to have good results in reducing the pain caused by the injection. However, no study has buffered long-acting local anaesthetic in CTR surgery, and no study has accounted for the patient's individual pain tolerance in the groups. There are no comparisons of the results to minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for pain. Hypothesis In this study the investigators will evaluate the effects of buffering long-lasting local anaesthetic in wide-awake local anaesthesia no tourniquet (WALANT) CTR. This study's hypothesis is that buffering long-acting local anaesthetic with sodium bicarbonate decreases the pain of the injection. The investigators also expect that buffering will reduce the number of needle stings felt during injection, will result in as good perioperative pain control, will lengthen the effect of anaesthetic, will reduce postoperative painkiller usage, will have at least as good functional outcome and greater patient satisfaction. Methods This study will enlist 116 patients and divide the patients into two groups in this double blinded randomized controlled trial. One group receives non-buffered, and the second group buffered local anaesthetic. This study's primary outcome is to compare burning, pressure, needle sting and total pain the patient experienced between the groups. The investigators will assess this using VAS, and will compare the results to MCID. The investigators secondary outcomes are comparisons of expected injection pain level and pain during CTR with VAS, individual pain tolerance/catastrophising tendency with preoperative PCS-FINv2.0 form, the number of needle stings the patient feels during the injection, functional outcome and improvement of the patients' symptoms with The Boston Carpal Tunnel Questionnaire (Likert 5) before and after the surgery, evaluation of patient satisfaction with net promoter score (NPS) and the use of painkillers, duration of analgesia and pain levels using VAS after the surgery until the 3rd postoperative night.