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Filter by:The hypothesis is that the music therapy intervention has a positive impact on the critical patients' mood as it has a reassuring effect that allows a connection with emotions, helps to communicate and affects the welfare of patients. It also reduces pain and the consumption of painkillers and sedatives, as well as vasoactive drugs in critical patients.
About 70% of critically ill patients require antiinfective therapy. Optimal antibiotic dosing is key to improve patient survival, reduce toxic effects and minimise the emergence of bacterial resistance. There is a growing body of evidence demonstrating the existence of significant changes in pharmacokinetics (PK) in intensive care patients, particularly those with extracorporeal therapy (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT)). To characterize the effects of extracorporal therapy for critically ill patients, we designed a prospective pilot observational study using a drug monitoring to derive relevant effects of extracorporeal therapy and clinical patient characteristics for the treatment with meropenem, teicoplanin, linezolid, piperacillin/tazobactam, levofloxacin and acyclovir.
Randomized controlled trial to establish evidence on which to base timing of enteral feeding after bedside PEG placement in ventilated Trauma and Surgical ICU patients.
A single-centre, two-arm, parallel randomised controlled trial (RCT) to compare the combined effect of early intravenous bolus amino acid supplementation and mobilisation versus standard of care on changes in muscle mass over the first week in ICU. Half of study participants will receive the study intervention (in-bed cycling followed by an intravenous bolus amino acid supplement), while the other half will receive standard of care only.
This study systematically observes in a pragmatic trail under real world conditions the association between strategies of therapy (maximal therapy, withhold, withdraw) and treatment success in three endpoint related initial risk groups (high, intermediate, low risk) regarding three endpoints (burden, mortality and supply costs).
There is a significant lack of adequately powered randomized clinical trial (RCT) data to determine the comparative safety and effectiveness of sedative treatments in pediatric patients. In many centres the standard of care for sedation in pediatric critical care unit (PCCU) patients includes the use of benzodiazepines despite the known negative effects of increased patient agitation and delirium, which can contribute to longer PCCU and hospital length of stay (LOS). The use of an alternative sedative, dexmedetomidine may reduce negative effects in this population. As such, the investigators plan to conduct a well designed comparative RCT to determine the most effective and safest sedative in this vulnerable population utilizing clinical assessments of sedation levels and delirium instance, electroencephalography (EEG) analysis and patient important outcomes.
Changes in pulmonary ventilation and perfusion by EIT to out-of-bed activity in critically ill patients
With the present study, the authors aim to improve the knowledge of the pathophysiology of ICU-related delirium. In particular, the authors would like to clarify the possible correlation between neuroinflammation, evaluated longitudinally by serum dosage of 20 different neuroinflammation biomarkers, and brain structural and functional alterations (using brain fMRI).
This prospective study will explore the pharmacokinetic exposure and pharmacodynamics of the echinocandins (caspofungin or anidulafungin) in critically ill patients.
The Researchers are trying to evaluate efficacy of a psychotherapeutic approach that can be applied to those who are critically ill. The daily approach in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is designed to provide patients with psychological support, reassurance, and explanations of where they are and what is happening to them.