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Filter by:The GRACE-2 study is a prospective, multi-center, double-blind, randomized controlled trial of the drug GM-CSF vs placebo in children with sepsis-induced multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) who have immunoparalysis with mild to moderate inflammation.
A long-term venous access is frequently required in patient management. Currently, it is ensured by using the long peripheral intravenous catheters (Midline) or peripheral inserted central catheters (PICC line). Either is inserted into a peripheral vein of the upper arm and extends to the distal axillary vein. If the indications for the two catheters can sometimes be debated, the Midline catheter seems to be more and more used. The complications related to the use of PICC lines have been well described in literature, whereas the comparison of the two catheter-related complications has been less analysed. The aim of this study is to compare the incidences of catheter-related bloodstream infections linked to PICCs and Midlines.
The intensive care units is of the main components of modern healthcare systems. Formally, its aim is to offer the critically ill health care fit to their needs; ensuring that this health care is appropriate, sustainable, ethical and respectful of their autonomy. Intensive medicine is a cross-sectional specialty that encompasses a broad spectrum of pathologies in their most severe condition, and specifically has as its foundation the practice of comprehensive care of the patient with organ dysfunction and susceptible to recovery. Although critically ill patients are a heterogeneous population, they have in common the need for a high level of care, often requiring the use of high technology, specific procedures for the support of organ dysfunction and the collaboration of other medical and surgical specialties for their management and treatment. Since their origins in the late 1950s, intensive care units have been adapting to the changes arising from the best scientific evidence. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, there were some successful clinical trials published that had tested alternative management strategies in the ICU. Mechanical ventilation is an intervention that defines the critical care specialty. Between 1970 and the 1990s, the management focused on normalizing arterial blood gas with aggressive mechanical ventilation. Over the ensuing decades, it became apparent that performing positive pressure ventilation worsened lung injury. The pivotal moment in the mechanical ventilation story would be the low versus high tidal volume trial. This trial shifted the focus away from normalizing gas exchange to reducing harm with mechanical ventilation. Further, it paved way for further trials testing ventilation interventions (PEEP strategy, prone position ventilation) and nonventilation interventions (neuromuscular blockade, corticosteroids, inhaled nitric oxide, extracorporeal gas exchange) in critically ill patients. That evidence-based intensive care medicine has undoubtedly had an influence on the outcome of critically ill patients, in general, and, particularly, of patients requiring mechanical ventilation. Temporal changes in mortality over the time have been scarcely reported for patients admitted to intensive care unit. Objective of this study is to estimate the changes over the time in several outcomes in the patients admitted to an 18-beds medical-surgical intensive care unit from 1991 (year of start of activity) to 2026
Evaluation of Infective Risk, Efficacy of Bacterial Prophylaxis and Validation of sepsis scores NEWS (National Early Warning Score) and qSOFA (Quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment) in Patient With Acute Myeloid Leukemia Treated With Intensive Chemotherapy
The study aims to investigate clinically and prognostically relevant parameters in patients with sepsis and septic shock within a monocentric observational clinical register.
Sepsis is a clinical syndrome with high morbidity and high fatality rate in emergency department. Patients with acute liver or kidney injury are more likely to develop Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome(MODS) secondary to the non-hepatic injury group, and the prognosis deteriorates significantly. At present, there is no unified diagnostic criteria for acute liver injury associated with sepsis, and the commonly used prognostic evaluation system is rarely included in liver injury indicators, which is not good for practicality.
Anemia is a common health problem. Depending on a geographical region, anemia affects even 50% of population. Among patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) anemia may affect as much as 66% of patients. Moreover, many patients develop anemia during the ICU stay. In general population the most common cause of anemia is iron deficiency (ID). The investigators lack information on the incidence of ID and anemia of inflammation (AI) with absolute ID (mixed type of anemia: AI + IDA) or functional ID (AI) in patients with sepsis or septic shock hospitalised in the ICU. Therefore, the aim of the study is to improve diagnosis of iron deficiency (ID) and anemia of inflammation (AI) with absolute ID (AI + IDA) or functional ID (AI) in patients with sepsis or septic shock. ID have negative effects on the body and is associated with impaired production of proteins responsible for transport of oxygen in the blood (hemoglobin) and oxygen storage (myoglobin), and impaired immune function. Development of anemia is associated with well documented complications: organ hypoxia, myocardial infarction, stroke, infection. Replenishment of iron at this early stage may potentially prevent IDA. It is advantageous to replenish iron stores in order to avoid these complications, especially in patients with sepsis or septic shock. In IDA red blood cell transfusion is not recommended as it leads to other numerous complications. Therefore the patients presenting with laboratory results suggesting ID will receive divided doses od parenteral iron. Monitoring of iron replenishment will be based on a new laboratory parameter- reticulocyte hemoglobin equivalent.
Phase IV, open-labeled, randomized and multicenter clinical trial to demonstrate the superiority of antibiotics with authorized indication for 7 days versus 14 days in the treatment of bloodstream infections produced by P. aeruginosa (BSI-PA).
Sepsis is an increasingly recognised burden to healthcare systems worldwide. Intravenous fluid therapy is a common first-line intervention recommended by international guidelines. Hyperoncotic preparations of human albumin solution are widely available, but their efficacy has yet to be proven. This randomised feasibility trial will test whether it is feasible to administer hyperoncotic albumin solutions as both fluid resuscitation and as a regular supplement in patients with early septic shock.
In this prospective, randomised, open-label, parallel group, feasibility trial; the investigators will objectively assess whether it is feasible to apply the Geko device to critically ill adults for the prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) compared to usual care with intermittent pneumatic compression devices (IPCs).