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Filter by:This study is designed as a multicenter prospective data recording study to document the performance of the DAT clip as part of standard medical care of patients. No experimental interventions will be performed.
THIS STUDY IS GOING TO COMPARE THE INCIDENCE OF BURST ABDOMEN IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING LAPAROTOMY WOUND CLOSURE IN CONTINUOUS VERSUS INTERRRUPTED-X MANNER
In Kisantu Health Zone, approximate population 200,000, fever surveillance will be implemented in 8 health centers and 1 tertiary hospital. Individuals presenting to one of these study facilities with acute fever or history of fever or individuals presenting with suspicion of intestinal perforation irrespective of fever status, will be considered for enrollment. Following consent, blood samples (between 2.5 ml for children and 22 ml for adults) will be collected from eligible subjects and demographic and clinical information will be recorded in study forms at the time of enrollment at study health centers and hospitals. Peritoneal fluid and ileal tissue samples will be collected from surgical patients where possible. Biological specimens will be used for various testing, including microbiological culture of blood, tissue and peritoneal fluid for confirmation of bacterial growth, malaria diagnostics (microscopy and rapid testing), and storage of tissue samples for pathological investigation, and biobanking. Hospitalized patients will be followed-up to track clinical outcomes for the duration of hospitalization.
This study plans to assess the effect of placement of abdominal drains on the outcomes of ERAS (Enhanced recovery after surgery) protocol in the perioperative management of peptic perforation. In the study arm ERAS protocol will be implemented avoiding use of abdominal drain. In the control arm abdominal drains will be placed in the early post operative period while using the ERAS protocol. The effect of drains on duration of post operative stay and other return to physiological parameter like onset of ambulation, oral intake, passing flatus and feces etc. will be studied. The investigators hypothesize that the non-placement of abdominal drain postoperatively will not have worse outcomes than in cases where it is used postoperatively, in terms of length of hospital stay. .
With an increasing body of evidence to support a causal link between drinking milk that contain cow's milk protein (CMP) and the development of gastrointestinal disturbance in infants, many clinicians avoid the use of CMP containing feed in high risk babies. Delivery of adequate nutritional intake is one of the great challenges in the care of newborn infants, particularly those born preterm or with gastrointestinal problems. Whilst there are recognised benefits of human milk, a diet of exclusive human milk may not meet the nutritional demands of the infant. To close this gap, breast milk fortifier (BMF) is typically added to human milk. However, addition of BMF may be associated with gastrointestinal disturbance, possibly due to the fact that it contains CMP. This research study is to test the tolerability and safety of a new human milk-based BMF in neonates with gastrointestinal problems. It is hoped that this may provide an opportunity for high risk infants, to receive the benefits of human milk whilst minimising the risks reported to be associated with CMP. Eligible infants will be those in whom nutritional supplementation of breast is deemed clinically necessary, a weight of greater than 1.0kg at the time of starting fortifier and at least one of: - previous gastrointestinal surgery - congenital gastrointestinal anomaly - medically treated gastrointestinal disease - previously suspected intolerance of CMP based breast milk fortifier in the absence of other gastrointestinal disease Infants will be started on human milk-based BMF once they are tolerating 100 mls per kilo per day of human breast milk. The human milk-based fortifier will be commenced at half the recommended dose for 48 hours then increase to full strength. This will be continued until the infant reaches 44 weeks corrected gestational age, or until such time as they are deemed to no longer require the additional nutrition.
It is a retrospective study. Patients, who presented with either traumatic or general surgery emergencies, undergone exploratory laparotomy, had an open abdomen management and received Direct Peritoneal Resuscitation in addition to standard resuscitation will be considered as meeting the criteria to collect the data.
The human microbiota, a collection of microorganisms mostly settled in the gastrointestinal tract, plays a major role in the maintenance of the hosts' health and in development of disease as well. Exposure to different conditions early in life contributes to distinct "pioneer" bacterial communities, which shape the newborn infants' development and influence their later physiological, immunological and neurological homeostasis. Newborn infants with congenital malformations of the gastrointestinal tract (CMGIT), necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), and spontaneous intestinal perforation (SIP) commonly require abdominal surgery and enterostomy. While intestinal microbiota has been extensively studied in infants with anatomically uninterrupted intestine, the knowledge of longitudinal intestinal colonization in this population is scarce. This is an exploratory, observational, and longitudinal prospective study, primarily aimed to determine longitudinally the colonization of the proximal remnant intestine, in newborn infants with enterostomy after surgery (three weeks) for CMGIT, NEC and SIP. The secondary aim is to explore the associations of the colonization with the mode of delivery, gestational age, postnatal age, duration of fasting, type of enteric feeding, antimicrobial therapy, H2-receptor antagonist therapy, and length of proximal remnant intestine.
The Transversus Abdominis Block (TAP) block is known to be an effective means of reducing patient pain after abdominal surgery. In the meantime, the general TAP block has been studied in patients who were in the recovery room and the ward after surgery. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of pain reduction and opioid saving effects in patients with TAP block in ICU settings.
This study is designed to evaluate a novel tool to aid in the diagnosis of intestinal perforation in infants who are at high risk. Analysis of perforation rates of all infants in the three largest participating sites shows that the majority of infants with perforation will do so prior to day of life 21. This study will target the group of infants at highest risk for IP, those with birth weight less than 1000 grams, within the time frame most likely to capture the perforation. Hypothesis: An IRT value exists that can adequately differentiate premature infants with and without intestinal perforation in the first 3 weeks of life.