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Filter by:To minimize the negative effects of exposure to silica, iron chips, and coke on the respiratory health of workers in the Ferro alloy factory, so it is important to assess and diagnose their health-related effects. Early reporting, diagnosis, and intervention can limit the severity of health hazards, improve health services. To our knowledge, no local previous studies were done in this area. All over the world there is no sufficient information relating to this industry and its health hazards.
This study proposes an approach to address an urgent unmet need in clinical practice, namely a pragmatic method of establishing what is the cause of a patient's complaint and the next steps to address this problem. In this study, the investigators will compare the proposed classification with current best practice of self-report, spirometry and FeNO. The investigators will compare the two approaches with a gold standard of deep characterisation by 3 separate diagnostic tests. The investigators hypothesize that patients with symptoms of respiratory disease fall into one of four working groups based on accurate knowledge of three parameters, airflow, treatment use and the patient's symptoms.
Breathing is an automatic vital function that has the peculiarity of being controllable voluntary for actions other than breathing. Speech production is a characteristic example of use of the respiratory system for nonrespiratory purposes. A healthy respiratory system is necessary for speech to be adequately produced and modulated. In patients with respiratory diseases, it becomes difficult to interfere with an automatic control of breathing that is intensely active to compensate for the respiratory deficience. Speech production is impeded, and, reciprocally, speech can generate dyspnea. This study explores the hypothesis that longitudinal changes in speech characteristics will parallel the clinical evolution of acute respiratory episodes. The aim is to validate such changes as prognostic indicators, in the perspective of future telemedicine applications. The hypothesis tested is that of an association between : - vocal abnormalities at inclusion (assessed in relation to known data within a normal population (database of holy subjects already constituted) and the initial clinical severity (assessed according to the usual clinical and gasometric criteria): - the evolution of vocal abnormalities during the stay and the clinical evolution.
Objectives: To determine whether CRP-guided antibiotic treatment for managing AECOPD in adult patients attending Emergency Departments leads to reduced antibiotic duration, without non-inferior COPD health status with usual care. Hypothesis to be tested: (i) The antibiotic duration in AECOPD patients will be significantly lower for CRP-guided antibiotic discontinuation than usual care; and (ii) COPD health status as measured by the Clinical COPD Questionnaire has no statistically significant difference between two groups. Design and subjects: Multi-center, single-blind, open-label, randomized, combined superiority (antibiotic duration) and non-inferiority (COPD health status) trial in 1,184 adult AECOPD patients presented to A&E. Instruments: Clinical COPD Questionnaire and EuroQol-5D Interventions: Both intervention and control groups follow usual care with GOLD strategy. The intervention group will be recommended to test for serum CRP daily. Antibiotic prescription is considered when CRP >5mg/dL. Once CRP has declined to <5mg/dL and the patient was afebrile for past 48 hours, antibiotic discontinuation will be considered. Communication with Receiving Ward Staffs: Participants in the study may transfer to another departments after treatment/ care in A&E. The following communication would be conducted: - A handover note that informs the receiving ward staffs about patients' enrolment to the trial, group assignment, and previous treatments given in A&E. The note would also suggest the investigations for the receiving ward staffs. - Telephone handover about intervention group and investigations of the study, and treatments given in A&E to ward. Main outcome measures: The antibiotic duration (total number of antibiotic days) within 28 days and recovery in terms of COPD health status (Clinical COPD Questionnaire total scores) within 14 days from randomisation. Data analysis: Intention-to-treat and cost-effectiveness analyses will be performed. The outcome assessors and data analysts will be blinded to group allocation. Expected results: The intervention group will exhibit reduction in antibiotic duration at 4-weeks, without negatively impacting on COPD health status, compared with the control group.
COVID-19 has multiple facets including cytokine storm, thromboembolism and gelatinous secretions. It is known that oxygen exchange is the main problem in patients with COVID-19 and hypoxia is one of the most serious, in which patients succumb to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). In other severe respiratory disease such as ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP), formation of biofilm in the endotracheal tube causes infection to spread to the lungs, resulting in respiratory decline and high mortality. The development of gelatinous sputum plugs correlates with negative outcome. Both groups of patients still have limited therapy options. BromAc is a potent mucolytic, biofilm degrader, cleaves the glycoproteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (antiviral), and down regulates cytokines and chemokine in COVID-19 sputum. The investigators seek to examine the safety and attempt to gain preliminary efficacy of nebulised BromAc in moderate to severe COVID-19 and other mucus producing, severe, respiratory diseases.
Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to evaluate safety and immunogenicity of intranasal "Gam-COVID-Vak" combined vector vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The duration of participation in the study for one subject will be 180±14 days after the first dose of vaccine, during which each subject will undergo a screening visit (within a week) and face-to-face visits according to the study plan. Intranasal vaccine administration will be done at day 1 vaccination visits and day 21±2 days on an outpatient basis. During the follow-up visits key vital signs will be assessed, and will collect data on changes in the state and well-being subjects from a previous visit. Subject data will be collected using electronic forms of individual registration cards, as well as with using questionnaires (diaries) filled by the subjects of the study. Immunogenicity will be assessed on day 1, 10, 28, 42 and 90 days. Humoral and cellular immune response will be evaluated.
The objective of this study is to determine whether oral NAC is effective at attenuating COVID-19 disease symptom severity and duration of symptoms.
1. To identify the pattern of presentation of COVID-19 in patients with chronic respiratory diseases 2. To asses the severity of COVID-19 in patients with chronic respiratory diseases 3. To identify the outcome of COVID-19 in patients with chronic respiratory diseases
Vojta therapy is a physiotherapy intervention with scientific evidence in respiratory pathologies in children and proven in adults. In this pilot study with an RCT design, its effect in adult patients with respiratory pathology caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus will be studied. The non-invasive and non-painful technique consists of applying tolerable pressure to specific areas of the patient's body. The objective is to activate, in a reflex way, the ventilatory physiology. It is compared with the conventional respiratory physiotherapy approach.
To explore the efficacy of treatment of pulmonary cytokine storm induced by SARS-CoV2 with a monoclonal antibody to IL-2 (Basiliximab) in addition to current standard of care vs current standard of care with the primary efficacy endpoint being the proportion of subjects alive and free of ventilator support, defined as intubation and requiring mechanical ventilation, at Day 28 from time of randomization.