Clinical trials: Acute/Critical Illness
Sepsis, Septic Shock
Central Venous Catheter Colonisation Among Critically Ill Patients in Intensive Care Units
Background: Central Venous catheter insertion technique and indwelling time are major risk factors for CVC colonisation. Colonisation occurs through microbial migration and biofilm formation along the catheter insertion tract.
- Conditions
- Sepsis, Septic Shock, Post-cardiac Surgery, Post-Cardiorespiratory Arrest Coma
- Trial name
- NCT03270774
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Makerere University
Critical Illness, Trauma
Improving Situational Awareness Before Acute Care
This study aims to assess the impact on the trauma team's situational awareness of using a dashboard to synthesize and disseminate available information on a critical patient incoming to the trauma center.
- Trial name
- IMPULSE (NCT04577196)
- Testing
- Trauma dashboard
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Grenoble
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Complication, ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome)
RECOMMEND Platform Trial
The goal of this platform trial is to determine the efficacy, safety and cost-effectiveness of various interventions in patients with acute cardiorespiratory failure requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) The main…
- Conditions
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Complication, ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome), Intensive Care Medicine, Cardiac Arrest (CA)
- Trial name
- RECOMMEND (NCT06526533)
- Testing
- Liberal RBC Transfusion, Restrictive RBC Transfusion
- Where
- 3 sites in Australia
- Volunteers
- 600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre
Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit, Sleep Quality in Adult ICU Patients
Virtual Reality to Reduce Anxiety, Agitation and Delirium in Critically Ill Patients
This is a pilot feasibility study examining the use of immersive virtual reality (VR) in adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients.
- Conditions
- Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit, Sleep Quality in Adult ICU Patients, Agitation Associated With Critical Illness, Anxiety Acute
- Trial name
- NCT07649876
- Testing
- Virtual reality (VR) therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center