There are about 36633 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in France. 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.
According to recent publications, the percentage of caregivers infected with COVID 19 is evaluated between 10 and 30% . This great variability is due, on the one hand to the intensity of the influx of covid plus patients and, on the other hand, to the disparity in the preparation of caregivers in the face of this emergency. Indeed, we can understand that the strict application of hygiene rules can be faulted in the face of the volume of patients, the lack of protective equipment and the lack of specific training for caregivers in this area. As a result, within healthcare teams, there are many questions that generate anxiety: will I be able to provide care properly while protecting myself from the risk of contamination? This anxiety is also present and sometimes manifests itself aggressively in the entourage or in the vicinity of caregivers, due to lack of scientific data adapted to the local ecology of the crisis. Thus, the aim of this study is to show that the risk for caregivers of being contaminated by COVID in an area dedicated to COVID positive patients is no higher than being a caregiver in a non-COVID area that he either in the adult or pediatric sector.
To assess the diagnostic value of NGS screnning in prelingually deafned children using a new designed chip, and to evaluate its interest in a the neonatal screening program for ddetecting congenitally deafned children.
Sedation is often required for pediatric medical imaging procedures to ensure compliance and quality images. Recommendations exist regarding pediatric sedation, but there are currently no guidelines regarding the choice of the sedative drug. We aim to compare the efficacy and adverse events of per os pentobarbital with intravenous chlorpromazine in children undergoing diagnostic imaging procedures.
COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and causes substantial morbidity and mortality. There is currently no vaccine to prevent Covid-19 or infection with SARS-CoV-2 or therapeutic agent to treat COVID-19. This protocol CORIMUNO19-COAG will evaluate the efficacy and safety of active anticoagulation using heparin: Tinzaparin (INNOHEP®) or unfractionated heparin (Calciparine®, Héparine Sodique Choay®) in COVID-19 patients hospitalized in conventional or intensive care units. It will use a phase 2 randomized open-label multicentre clinical trial, where patients will be randomly allocated to anticoagulation versus Standard of Care.
It appears interesting to use nivolumab in severe patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 requiring hospitalization in conventional unit or in ICU. This protocol CORIMUNO19-NIVO therefore, will evaluate the efficacy and safety of OPTIVO® (nivolumab) COVID-19 patients hospitalized in conventional unit. The purpose of this study is to show the efficacy of nivolumab in patients with COVID-19 in combination with standard treatments. A phase 2 randomized open trial will evaluate the efficacy and safety of optivo® (nivolumab) alone versus standard of care (SoC) in patients hospitalized in conventional units. Patients will be randomly allocated 1:1 to either nivolumab or SoC.
Professional constraints can have major causes on personal and couple life. In particular, some professions with major professional constraints that can be particularly impacted, such as doctors and healthcare workers. The main objective was to demonstrate the impact of work on the desire and the fact to have children
In 2019, the lack of studies about mental health of the detained population at retention centers in France is pointed out by the report of Controller-General for Places of Deprivation of Liberty. The aim of this study is to contribute to this relatively untouched field by describing which psychiatric pathologies are encountered in this population who went through migration and retention. Having a clearer picture of the situation can help to provide a more adapted psychiatric care in retention centers. The results are expected to show a higher rate of psychiatric disease than in the general population including addiction to substance, anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) have impaired psycho-cognitive functions in parallel with deteriorating kidney function. The pathophysiology of cognitive impairment in CKD is poorly understood and there is currently no therapy to limit cognitive decline. As kidney function deteriorates, uremic toxins accumulate in the patient's body. Their cerebral toxicity, whether direct or indirect through cerebral endothelial dysfunction, is a hypothesis that may explain the cognitive abnormalities, as well as the increased severity of strokes in patients with CKD. Among uremic toxins, indoxyl sulfate (IS) is an indolic toxin that is poorly purified by dialysis and whose high levels have already been shown to be associated with an increased cardiovascular risk in patients with CKD. Our hypothesis is that the psycho-cognitive disorders observed in patients with CKD are linked to cerebral endothelial dysfunction associated with high levels of IS. In two models of CKD in rats, found impaired cognitive performance and increased blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability, as assessed by brain scintigraphy with 99mTc-DTPA, compared to healthy control rats. Impaired cognitive performance was correlated with BBB permeability and circulating IS levels. Rats receiving an IS-enriched diet had higher BBB permeability and more impaired cognitive performance than MRC rats without an IS-enriched diet, suggesting a central role of IS. The 99mTc-DTPA brain scintigraphy has already been used in clinical research to assess the BBB disruption after stroke, outside the context of CKD, and the tracer is available in human nuclear medicine. Our hypothesis is that patients with CKD would have increased permeability of the BBB compared to healthy age- and sex-matched controls, and that this permeability would correlate with circulating levels of IS as in our preclinical animal models. The main objective of this project is to evaluate the permeability of the BBB by brain scintigraphy with 99mTc-DTPA in patients with end-stage CKD and compare it to healthy age- and sex-matched controls. A 18-month inclusion period will allow us to recruit 15 patients with end-stage CKD and 15 healthy volunteers matched in age and gender, as an important number of patients with end-stage CKD are followed in our department. If we confirm the results obtained in animal models, we will be able to propose the analysis of BBB disruption in isotope imaging as a criterion for evaluating therapeutic approaches modulating the toxicity of indolic uremic toxins in order to limit cognitive decline.
Alzheimer disease is the most common neurodegenerative brain disease that causes cognitive impairment in the elderly but also behavioral and psychological symptoms. Among these symptoms, agitation is one of the most dangerous because it put the patient and their caregivers in danger. Sleep disorders can be the cause of many psychiatric symptoms leading directly or indirectly to agitation. Music therapy is the non-drug therapy which has been shown to be the most effective in managing agitation and sleep disorders. With the MAGE protocol, the investigators propose to take care of behavioral disorders in severe Alzheimer patients living in nursing home through sequences of music therapy (stimulation, relaxation) automatically initiated by an actigraph that will detect sleep disorders. These subjects will be exposed for 2 weeks over a month. Behavioral and sleep disorders will be evaluated objectively by actigraphy but also by standardized scales, as the others neuropsychiatric symptoms found classically in this disease. Thanks to this project, the investigators hope to improve the quality of life of these patients by preventing them from putting themselves in danger, by reducing their neuropsychiatric symptoms and their use of medication, which has often deleterious side effect and also by reducing the workload of caregivers.
After the initial monitoring period during hospitalization and isolation, patients with recent transplants are regularly monitored in monthly consultations but are still fragile, immunosuppressed and undergoing many treatments. The implementation of an outpatient assistance program for transplant patients should be feasible and allow for the improvement in medical-psycho-social care for the patients during this fragile and risky period, improve the satisfaction and quality of life for these transplant patients and assist in their socio-professional and familial reintegration.