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Filter by:The opioid crisis continues to plague the United States. While great strides have been made nationwide to decrease overprescribing, improvements are still needed to appropriately educate patients on the safe and responsible use, storage and disposal of opioids. Pain after surgery is often treated with opioid medications. Opioid medications can have side effects. Some side effects are relatively minor (constipation, nausea, vomiting), while others are more severe (sedation, abnormal breathing, etc.) and can lead to serious illness or death. Opioid pain medications when used the wrong way may also be addictive. Due to theses side effects, sometimes patients feel uncomfortable about taking these medications, and doctors prescribe them very cautiously. However, when used properly and safely, opioid pain medications are excellent pain relievers. Addinex, a technology company, has developed a device to help patients take opioids more safely. In this study the investigators aim to enroll a total of 30 patients who undergo spine surgery. Half will be randomly assigned to receive a standard pill bottle with opioids at discharge and will download a mobile app so that they can record their daily pain scores and the number of opioids they take for two weeks after surgery. The other half will receive the new opioid dispenser filled with opioids and a mobile app that generates a passcode that opens that device only at designated times. For this group of patients, every time the patient wants to take an opioid, they need to go to the app, enter their pain score before the app generates a passcode. The investigators will be tracking all study patients' opioid use and pain scores for the two weeks after surgery, will count how many pills they have left over 14 days after their surgery during a live telehealth session, and ask patients how they liked using the device. Results from this study will help understand if the Addinex device could potentially be useful to patients in the future after surgeries as opposed to typical pill bottles.
The purpose of this study is to assess the effect on patient's comfort of a virtual reality experience during a procedure of cardiac electronic device implantation under local anesthesia.
The Continuous Tracheal Gas Insufflation (CTGI) is a ventilation option of conventional ventilation to reduce or even cancel dead space due to respiratory prostheses. This objective is particularly interesting in the smallest preterm infants in which the volume of anatomical dead space due to prostheses is little different from the tidal volume. The principle of this option is to continuously blow an additional flow of 0.2 L/min at tip of endotracheal tube to purge expired CO2 trapped in the prostheses to have a CO2-free volume of gas available for subsequent insufflation.
This is a single-center, open-label, prospective study. Blood glucose was measured at different time points during oral glucose tolerance testing in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, using both venous plasma and multi-channel microspatial offset Raman scattering spectroscopy (mμSORS). Venous plasma glucose was set as gold standard.The two measurements were collected synchronously so as to calculate the mean absolute relative difference (MARD) and the consensus error grid (CEG). Accuracy of non-invasive blood glucose testing by mμSORS will be validated. MARD for two measurement methods in different blood glucose ranges and the safety outcomes of mμSORS such as adverse events will also be assessed.
Blood pressure (BP) monitoring is essential for managing cardiovascular diseases. Arterial line (A-line), the clinical gold standard for BP monitoring, is too invasive for routine measurements. The sphygmomanometer, on the other hand, is non-invasive but captures only discrete values. The recently introduced conformal ultrasound sensor offers non-invasive and continuous monitoring of BP, which can potentially improve the quality of patient care, but its accuracy has yet to be thoroughly validated. Here the investigators are working to validate the accuracy of a redesigned ultrasound sensor with enhanced reliability in BP measurements at-home and in clinics even under different interventions.
Interest of a Taurolidine lock at each catheter closure in the primary prevention of catheter-related endoluminal infection in paediatric oncology. Multicentric, controlled, randomized and double-blind label study.
This is a single-center, open-label, prospective study. Blood glucose was measured at different time points during oral glucose tolerance testing in healthy subjects and patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, using both venous plasma and multi-channel microspatial offset Raman scattering spectroscopy (mμSORS). Venous plasma glucose was set as gold standard.The two measurements were collected synchronously so as to calculate the mean absolute relative difference (MARD) and the consensus error grid (CEG). Accuracy of non-invasive blood glucose testing by mμSORS will be validated. MARD for two measurement methods in different blood glucose ranges and the effect of mμSORS on safety in the patient such as adverse events will also be assessed.
Post-operative mortality in case of scheduled surgery is 3% in France (Lancet 2013) mainly due to cardiovascular or respiratory complications, by decompensation of pre-existing pathologies. Complications due to the medical practice are the third cause of morbidity (BMJ, 2016). More than half are preventable and are mainly observed in surgical patients. In conventional hospitalization, excluding intensive care, monitoring is done discontinuously for most of the patients, which does not allow early diagnosis of a vital cardiovascular or respiratory failure. Diagnosis and late treatment do not allow good recovery. The early identification of a vital failure by the continuous monitoring of three simple physiological parameters (SpO2, heart rate and respiratory rate) would allow faster management by the hospital staff and a reduction in immediate and possibly delayed postoperative mortality.
This study aimed to analyze and investigate whether the use of the PMcardio clinical assistant leads to a more efficient patient management in primary care and more accessible specialised care compared to usual standards of care and to assess the reliability and safety of the PMcardio smartphone application in the primary care use environment. Additionally, to evaluate time savings and cost saving implications of increased availability of specialised care at the primary care level.
This project aims to assess the ability of a portable and connected medical device to detect breast abnormalities, for breast cancer screening. It will accelerate technological progress in the face of breast cancer.