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Filter by:Gastrointestinal bleeding is a condition that frequently presents to emergency departments and can be fatal if diagnosis and treatment are delayed. The working mechanism of end tidal capnography is simply to detect the respiratory carbon dioxide level. In our study, the investigators aimed to determine the severity of gastrointestinal bleeding by using the Glaskow Blachford Score and AIMS65 score in cases presenting with gastrointestinal bleeding, to determine the end tidal carbon dioxide value by capnography in these cases and to determine its effectiveness in evaluating mortality and morbidity in gastrointestinal bleeding.
Gastrointestinal bleeding is a frequent reason for consultation in the Emergency Department. It is a real emergency associated with fairly significant morbidity and mortality. The incidence of upper gastrointestinal bleeding (HDH) has been reported to be 67-103 per 100,000 adults per year in the UK with mortality rates of 2%-8%. While Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding (LBHB) has a lower incidence estimated at 33 per 100,000 adults per year. Additionally, compared to HDB, HDB appears to have less need for hemostatic intervention and lower mortality.
This study will engage patients and families to create a definition of what matters most to them about upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. This information will help to define the outcome of "patient-important GI bleeding" which is a secondary endpoint for the ongoing international randomized trial REVISE (NCT03374800), comparing acid suppression versus no acid suppression in the intensive care unit (ICU). Other outcomes in REVISE are clinically important upper GI bleeding, mortality, pneumonia and Clostridioides difficile infection. Guided by patient and family input, a series of open-ended questions will elicit patient and family views about what matters most about this complication in interviews and focus groups. The investigators will develop the definition of "patient-important GI bleeding" by analyzing interview and focus group transcripts of critically ill survivors and family members of critically ill patients who may or may not have had GI bleeding, and who were not enrolled in the REVISE trial. Patient and family perspectives (anticipated to be different from what clinicians consider to be clinically important GI bleeding), will be used to refine a new trial outcome for research on GI bleeding in the intensive care unit (ICU). Also, study results will help clinicians understand how to better support patients and families; to explain testing and treatment options when GI bleeding occurs in practice in the ICU.
Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) is common among infants and young children in sub-Saharan Africa.Oral iron administration is usually recom-mended as cost effective measure to prevent and treat iron deficiency (ID) and IDA during childhood. In Kenya, national nutrition policies for anaemia prevention recommend a daily dose of 3-6 mg ele-mental iron per kg body weight if a child is diagnosed with anaemia. Using a novel technology, recent research found increased iron losses during iron supplementation. In an explorative analysis of stool samples collected from Gambian toddlers (Speich et al., 2020), an increase in faecal iron losses during iron supplementation was reported. The present study is aiming to analyse a relationship between routine iron supplementation and increased faecal occult blood losses in 24 Kenyan children with anaemia and iron deficiency in a more structured manner. Secondary objectives of the study are to measure and monitor iron and inflammatory status during the course of the study and to quantify long-term iron absorption and iron losses during a 12-weeks iron supplementation period, in order to put iron balance into relationship to occurring faecal occult blood losses during such an intervention.
This study will evaluate the use of the Olympus EndoCapsule EC-10 video capsule compared with the standard of care workup for patients in the Clinical Decision Unit who have symptoms of gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. Patients will be eligible if they have any symptoms of GI bleeding, either vomiting blood or symptoms without vomiting blood. Patients randomized to the early capsule arm will have an immediate video capsule endoscopy. Patients randomized to the standard of care arm will have no study intervention and will follow the treating physician's diagnostic workup. The primary goal of the study is to compare how often a source of bleeding is identified in patients in the two groups.
Gastro intestinal (GI) bleeding is relatively frequent and may lead to intensive care unit admission. Although a restrictive strategy for red blood cell transfusion is supported by a large randomized controlled trial literature, less is known about the impact of transfusion strategy of other blood components and administration of anti fibrinolytic on clinical outcomes. This study aims to identify parameters that may be associated with the risk of further bleeding in patients admitted to ICU for GI bleeding.
This study evaluates two different methods for monitoring a patient's anti-clotting [heparin] therapy after they receive a heart pump implant [left ventricular assist device -LVAD]. One method tests for how long it takes the patient's blood to clot and uses that to determine if they are on the right dose of heparin. The other method uses a more direct measure of how much heparin is in the blood. The hypothesis is that the method that more directly measures how much heparin is in the patient's blood will provide better medical results for the patient's care after they have the heart pump implant. To that end, the investigators are conducting this feasibility trial to establish the logistics associated with the implementation of these heparin monitoring approaches.