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Filter by:Aim of the study is to determine the diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound and to determine its role in sepsis management .
Sepsis is an organ dysfunction syndrome caused by the host's immune response to infection, and is one of the common critical illnesses. However, sepsis remains the main threat to global health. Due to the high heterogeneity, the diagnosis of sepsis is difficult, and it is particularly important to find biomarkers that can predict changes in the patient's condition and prognosis. The purpose of this study is to collect patient blood samples for testing and identify biomarkers related to the prognosis of sepsis.
The aim of our study is to compare between transcranial doppler pulsatility index and mean arterial blood pressure in guiding management of sepsis induced encephalopathy.
The growing resistance of microorganisms to antimicrobials is a major threat to public health nowadays. Reducing the consumption of antibiotics is one of the main strategies to control this issue. Protocols using biomarkers to guide antimicrobial therapy have been studied, with promising results in safely reducing patient exposure to these drugs by reducing duration of treatments. Procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP) represent the most promising biomarkers in this context. Although less studied, CRP has the potential advantages of lower cost and wide availability when compared to PCT. However, decision algorithms involving biomarkers proposed in studies published so far are very far from daily medical practice in hospitals, mainly because there is poor accessibility to these protocols, and because most of them do not contemplate each patients clinical variables. The objective of this project is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a multimodal protocol using clinical variables and the CRP value to guide antibiotic therapy in hospitalized patients. This protocol will be applied diretcly by the assistant medical teams through a digital clinical decision support tool available in the form of an application for mobile devices developed by the research team.
The management of septic states includes, in addition to the specific treatment (antimicrobials and eradication of the source), a restoration of the hemodynamic disorders and assistance of the failing organs. In general, the restoration of hemodynamic disorders begins first with volume expansion, followed by the use of Noepinephrine (NE) when the target mean arterial pressure (MAP) is not reached after optimizing the intravascular volume. Recently, several studies have supported the interest of early NE on MAP, cardiac output and mortality. It is therefore tempting to restrict fluid administration even in the initial phase of hemodynamic management of severe sepsis by starting NE earlier.
Single-center, retrospective observational study to evaluate the implementation of early molecular diagnosis of sepsis using SeptiCyte and BCID2 in 120 critically ill patients with suspected sepsis without clear focus and requiring antimicrobial treatment. The main objective is to evaluate the performance of these molecular techniques with respect to routine clinical practice and their impact on the optimization of antimicrobial treatment in this group of patients.
Acute kidney injury is a well-recognized complication in critically ill patients. Up to date there is no clinically established method to reduce the incidence or the severity of acute kidney injury. Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) will be induced by three cycles of upper limb ischemia. The aim of the study is to reduce the incidence of AKI by implementing remote ischemic preconditioning (identified by the urinary biomarkers tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-2 (TIMP-2) and insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 7(IGFBP7)
Sepsis is a dysregulated host response to infection resulting in organ dysfunction. Over the past three decades, more than 30 pharmacological therapies have been tested in >100 clinical trials and have failed to show consistent benefit in the overall population of patients with sepsis. The one-size-fits-all approach has not worked. This has resulted in a shift in research towards identifying sepsis subphenotypes through unsupervised learning. The ultimate objective is to identify sepsis subphenotypes with different responses to therapies, which could provide a path towards the precision medicine approach to sepsis. The investigators have previously discovered sepsis subphenotypes in retrospective data using trajectories of vital signs in the first 8 hours of hospitalization. The team aims to prospectively classify adult hospitalized patients into these subphenotypes in a prospective, observational study. This will be done through the implementation of an electronic health record integrated application that will use vital signs from hospitalized patients to classify the patients into one of four subphenotypes. This study will continue until 1,200 patients with infection are classified into the sepsis subphenotypes. The classification of the patients is only performed to validate the association of the subphenotypes with clinical outcomes as was shown in retrospective studies. Physicians and providers treating the patients will not see the classification, and the algorithm classifying the patients will in no way affect the care of the patients. Further, all the data needed for the algorithm (vital signs from the first 8 hours) are standard of care, and enrollment in the prospective study does not require any additional data.
The aim of the study is to compare between neutrophil lymphocyte ratio and lactate albumin ratio as a predictor of morbidity and mortality in sepsis and septic shock patients.
We plan to include children with intestinal failure, a condition where the gut is not functioning properly, leading these children to need central venous catheters (line that goes through the skin into the blood stream) for nutritional support and hydration. Such patients have a very high risk for catheter infection. The study will include placing an agent (sodium bicarbonate) into the central catheter when the catheter is not in use. This is referred to as a lock. The lock would be used daily and removed when patients start their nutritional support and hydration through the catheter.