Clinical trials: Critically Ill Patient
Critical Illness
Lactoferrin Use in ICU Patients
Introduction: Lactoferrin has several uses due to its effects. It has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, immunomodulatory, antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral effects. Its safety is proven by food and drug administration.
- Trial name
- RCT (NCT05936528)
- Testing
- Lactoferrin, Antioxidant therapies, Dexamethasone
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 660 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mansoura University Hospital
Critical Illness
Hyporesponsiveness of Natural Killer Cells and a Dysfunctional Inflammatory Response in Critically Ill Patients
To investigate natural killer (NK) cell activities, circulating cytokine levels and peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) cytokine production status in critically ill patients.
- Trial name
- NCT02565589
- Volunteers
- 48 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Yonsei University
Airway Management, Tracheal Intubation
Curriculum for Airway Skills in Critically Ill Adults: a Delphi Evaluation
This study using a Delphi methodology, and involving international experts, will help define a training curriculum for physicians involved with airway management in critically ill patients.
- Conditions
- Airway Management, Tracheal Intubation, Critical Illness, Training
- Trial name
- CASCADE (NCT06689748)
- Testing
- Delphi procedure
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Anxiety Disorder/Anxiety State
The ICU is a Complex Setting Where Critically Ill Patients Are Treated, Impacting Caregivers' Mental Health, Leading to Anxiety and Depression .we Aim to Identify the Prevalence of Anxiety and Depression Among Family Members of ICU Patients in a Tertiary-Level Hospital in Nepal
a prospective observational study conducted in ICU of tertiary hospital under the guidance of mentors of department of critical care medicine TUTH to identify the Prevalence of Anxiety and Depression Among Family Members of ICU…
- Trial name
- HADS (NCT06835673)
- Where
- Nepal
- Volunteers
- 110 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute Of Medicine.
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
Pre-Eclampsia, Critical Illness
Homocysteine in Critically Ill Preeclampsia
Preeclampsia is a disorder characterized by the new onset of hypertension and proteinuria typically presenting after 20 weeks of gestation.
- Trial name
- NCT06413576
- Testing
- homocysteine measurement
- Where
- 2 sites in Egypt
- Volunteers
- 70 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ain Shams University
Nutrition, Critical Illness
Micronutrients in Critically Ill Patients
Nutritional support is an important component of modern critical care. The practice of vitamin and micronutrient supplementation is variable and official guidelines are not consistent.
- Conditions
- Nutrition, Critical Illness, Vitamin Supplementation
- Trial name
- MiNuCrit (NCT04136119)
- Testing
- questionnaire
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Terminally Ill Patients
Mobile Shared Decision-Making Program for ICU Caregivers
By developing a smart mobile shared decision-making (SDM) model, this study aims to assist family members of critically ill end-stage patients in making appropriate decisions, enhance their decision quality, and evaluate the…
- Trial name
- NCT07469878
- Testing
- Experimental: Mobile technology devices
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 70 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- CHIA-HUI MA
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
Critical Illness, Pneumonia, Viral
D-Dimer as Predictor of Disease Outcome in Intensive Care Unit in COVID-19m Patients
Evaluating value of D-Dimer blood level of icu admitted patients on admission and 48 hours later as outcome predictor in SARS.COV.2 patients.
- Trial name
- COVID-19 (NCT05279469)
- Testing
- no intervention, just observational for D-Dimer level in blood
- Where
- 2 sites in Egypt
- Volunteers
- 465 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ain Shams University
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
Critical Illness
PICU Patient Diary
The PICU-Diary study is a prospective single centre pilot study in the Pediatric Critical Care Unit at McMaster Children's Hospital.
- Trial name
- NCT03777527
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- McMaster University
Colonic Neoplasms, Rectal Neoplasms
Endoscopically Assisted Colostomy With Colopexy for Critically Ill Patients Without General Anesthesia or Laparotomy
Indications for colostomy are rectal or anal cancer, diverticular disease, radiation enteritis, complex perirectal fistulas, anorectal trauma, severe incontinence, motility and functional disorders.
- Conditions
- Colonic Neoplasms, Rectal Neoplasms, Fecal Incontinence
- Trial name
- EACC (NCT02308631)
- Testing
- ENDOSCOPICALLY ASSISTED COLOSTOMY WITH COLOPEXY
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 5 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo