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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.
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.
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.
The prevention of catheter-related complications is nowadays an important topic of research. Flushing the catheters is considered an important clinical procedure in preventing malfunction and several complications such as phlebitis or infection. Considering the latest guidelines of the Infusion Nurses Society, the flushing involves a pre and post-drug administration, requiring different syringes (with associated overall increased times of preparation/administration of intravenous medication by nurses, also increasing the need for manipulation of the venous catheter). A multi-centre, two-arm randomised controlled trial with partially blinded outcome assessment, of 146 adult patients. After eligibility analysis and informed consent, participants will receive usual intravenous administration of drugs with subsequent flushing procedures, with the double-chamber syringe (arm A) or with the classical syringes (arm B). The outcomes assessment will be performed on a daily basis by the unblind research team, with the same procedures in both groups. Some main outcomes, such as phlebitis and infiltration, will also be evaluated by nurses from a blind research team and registered once a day.