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Filter by:Multicenter, randomized open label clinical trial to evaluate IEM and HS as concomitant therapy for respiratory tract infection in patients under artificial ventilation in the ICU. Lung infection is a serious complication that may occur during hospital stay and may need artificial respiration or even develop during artificial ventilation for other causes. Current specific treatment consists of intravenous antibiotics. The current study evaluated whether aspiration and drainage of infected sputum helps curing this severe complication and whether nebulized HS has additional benefits, like eradicating bacteria or reducing inflammation.
Investigators propose to conduct a multicenter, prospective, randomized, controlled, assessing the interests of an antibiotic protocol guided by the combined use of serum procalcitonin (PCT) and a broad-panel respiratory multiplex PCR (mPCR) to reduce duration of antibiotics exposure in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) hospitalized in intensive care unit (ICU) with pneumonia. The primary endpoint is the number of antibiotic-days for the treatment of pneumonia.
1. Background and study aims Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of death in children worldwide. Although the diagnosis is clinical, a chest radiograph (CXR) is often necessary to clarify it, exposing the patient to radiation. Ultrasound has been increasingly used in the evaluation of the lung parenchyma without exposing patients to radiation. The pocket-size Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) can be used at the patient's bedside proving comfort and saving time. Evidence suggests that ultrasound can detect CAP (community-acquired pneumonia) in children with similar accuracy and reliability as CXR. However, few studies evaluated the ability to distinguish the aetiology of pneumonia and none used a pocket-size POCUS device. This study aims to assess, for the first time, the diagnostic accuracy of a pocket-size POCUS device for the etiological diagnosis of CAP vs. CXR, in paediatric ages. Secondarily, the investigators intend to evaluate the correlation between CXR image vs. ultrasound, the correlation between clinical progression and ultrasound images, and the diagnostic accuracy to detect complications. 2. Who can participate: The investigators will include, consecutively, all children aged >12 months and <18 years hospitalized to the Paediatric Department with the diagnosis of CAP on admission. The investigators will exclude children hospitalized with nosocomial pneumonia, with cystic fibrosis diagnosis or on long-term domiciliary ventilation. 3. What does the study involve: The diagnostic accuracy between POCUS and CXR in differentiating the type of pneumonia will be assessed. All participants will perform a POCUS at admission, daily during hospitalization, 15 days and 1 month after discharge. All children will also undergo a CXR upon admission and whenever necessary. 4. What are the possible benefits and risks of participating: Children will have a more frequent and serial assessment of CAP, which does not involve risks. 5. Where is the study run from: The study if from Centro Materno Infantil do Norte - Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António, a tertiary paediatric referral centre. 6. When is the study starting and how long is it expected to run for: The recruitment period is expected to start in January/2024 and end in January 2025.
The goal of this PHASE III clinical trial is to evaluate efficacy and safety of intravenous TAD® 600 mg/4 mL solution for injection in preventing myocardial injury in patients with pneumonia. The main question it aims to answer is: • could TAD® used as an add-on treatment to the standard therapy, due to the presence of the sodium salt glutathione, be effective and safe in preventing the risk of developing myocardial injury in hospitalized patients with pneumonia? Patients diagnosed with pneumonia (in the emergency department or hospital ward) will be asked to participate in the study and sign the Informed Consent Form (ICF) to assess their eligibility for enrollment. Eligible patients who meet the study inclusion criteria and complete the required Screening & Baseline (V0) examinations, will be randomized with a 1:1 ratio allocation to the IMP Test group (TAD® treatment) or IMP Placebo group (Placebo treatment) in a double-blind manner, PI & Patient blinded. TAD® (600 mg/4 mL reconstituted solution in 50 mL of 0.9% sodium chloride solution) or Placebo (50 mL of 0.9% sodium chloride solution) will be administered: - intravenously (with an infusion rate of 10 mL/min) - 2 times a day (with a dosing interval of 8 hours ± 30 minutes) - for 5 consecutive days (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4 and Day 5) - patients will then be required to undergo five Follow-up Visits.
During cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), oxygenation of the patient on the pump can be left completely under pump control, or the lungs can be ventilated with low tidal volume to reduce atelectasis. In recent years, the concept of mechanical power has been used to determine the extent of ventilator-related lung damage. This concept of mechanical power, by which the energy transferred by the ventilator to the lungs can be calculated, will be measured at certain intervals in CPB surgery patients on the pump and compared between the two groups. The investigators aimed to investigate the effect of two different ventilation methods on mechanical power and its relationship with postoperative pulmonary complications.
The hypothesis for this trial is that an antibiotic strategy for the management of non-severe community-acquired alveolar pneumonia in children aged 3 to 59 months, including amoxicillin 80-100 mg/kg/day for at least 3 days in case of rapid response and 5 days in case of delayed response, would not be inferior to current French recommendations (antibiotic therapy for 5 days in case of rapid response and 7 days in case of delayed response) in terms of treatment of failure rate at 7 days.
This is the matched 1:2 case-control study, prospectively collect case and control who are diagnosed with pneumococcal or non-pneumococcal community acquired pneumonia (CAP), accordingly from November 2023 through October 2024. The investigators define a CASE as a person aged ≥60 years due to pneumococcal confirmed CAP either in-patients or out-patients by doctor in charge. While a CONTROL is defined as a person aged ≥60 years due to non-pneumococcal confirmed CAP either in-patients or out-patients by doctor in charge. The goal of this observational study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) in pneumococcal CAP in Thai adults aged ≥ 60 years with or without any medical conditions. The main questions it aims to answer is: • What are the effectiveness of PCV13 for preventing all typed, vaccine typed, or non-vaccine typed of pneumococcal CAP among Thai older adults? The investigators retrospectively collect cases and control who are diagnosed with CAP accordingly from January 2012 through October 2023. The investigators define case and control the same as prospective method, but all data were retrieved from archive database. -The investigators select a 1:2 matched control with criteria as follows; 10-year-interval of age, ward (the same patient care such as out or in-patient, or admitted in the same level ward). Participants will be - collated from hospital database regarding their CAP illnesses by pneumococcal and non-pneumococcal pneumonia condition. - explored their vaccine status by either vaccine book checking or hospital database. Researcher will compare the effectiveness of PCV13 to prevent all typed, vaccine typed and non-vaccine typed pneumococcal pneumonia.
Determine the efficacy of dexamethasone plus standard of care (SOC) as compared to placebo plus SOC for treating severe hospital-acquired pneumonia in critically ill patients with a proinflammatory phenotype; It's an international phase III, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial.
Pentoxifylline is a xanthine-derived, commercially produced drug approved for the management of intermittent claudication in patients suffering from a chronic occlusive arterial disease of the limbs. Pentoxifylline has been documented to display anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects, as well as some antithrombotic and antiviral effects. This drug has also been shown to reduce lung fibrosis in patients with COVID-19, as well as to prevent thromboembolic events. This work aims to assess the benefit of oral Pentoxifyllin supplementation, in addition to standard antibiotic and other supportive therapy, in the management of hospitalized children with community-acquired pneumonia
To evaluate novel microbiological techniques for enhanced Pathogen Identification, assess the speed and efficiency of the integrated approach in providing timely diagnostic results, aiming to reduce the turnaround time for CAP diagnosis and subsequently improve patient outcomes and evaluate the clinical impact of enhanced precision in CAP diagnosis on treatment decisions, including the potential for targeted and more effective antimicrobial therapy based on accurate pathogen identification.