Clinical trials: Critical Ill Patients
Critical Illness
Infusion Set Replacement Intervals for Critically Ill Patients
This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of 24-hour versus 96-hour infusion set replacement to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) in critically ill adults with central venous access devices.
- Trial name
- NCT05359601
- Testing
- Infusion set replacement intervals
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 1,240 people
- Sponsor
- Zhongnan Hospital
Sepsis, Critical Illness
Assessment of the Anti-inflammatory Effect of Heparin Infusion Versus Subcutaneous Injection in Septic Patients
Venous thromboembolism (VTE), including pulmonary embolism (PE) and deep venous thrombosis (DVT), is a common and severe complication of critical illness.
- Trial name
- NCT04313790
- Testing
- Heparin Infusion, subcutaneous heparin
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Damanhour University
Critical Illness, Intensive Care Medicine
VoiceLove: An App-Based COMMunication Tool Designed to Address DeliriUm and Improve Family ENgagement and PatIent/Family SatisfaCtion in CriticAlly Ill PaTiEnts (COMMUNICATE)
VoiceLove is a phone application allowing family and patients to share information in a secure platform. This project will compare the VoiceLove app to usual care to learn about whether VoiceLove improves patient-family…
- Trial name
- COMMUNICATE (NCT06923462)
- Testing
- Communication Application
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Sleep Deprivation, Critical Illness
Sleep Harmonization Via Bundled Team-Based Interventions in the ICU
SHANTI-ICU compares the effectiveness of two evidence-based multicomponent ICU sleep promotion bundles on delirium and patient-reported sleep quality in critically ill adults. Bundle A is a non-pharmacologic strategy.
- Conditions
- Sleep Deprivation, Critical Illness, Sleep-Wake Disorders, Bundle Care
- Trial name
- SHANTI-ICU (NCT07840560)
- Testing
- Nighttime noise & light reduction, Clustering patient-care interactions, Non-pharmacologic sleep aids
- Where
- 8 sites in United States, Puerto Rico
- Volunteers
- 62,500 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
Critical Illness, Communication Disabilities
Enhancing & Mobilizing the POtential for Wellness & Emotional Resilience Among Surrogate Decision-Makers of ICU Patients
Intensive Care Units (ICU) are stressful places where life-and-death medical decisions are made and patients' surrogate decision-makers are exposed to potentially traumatic experiences.
- Trial name
- EMPOWER (NCT03276559)
- Testing
- EMPOWER, Enhanced Usual Care
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 63 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Nutritional Disorder, Critical Illness
The Effect of Higher Protein Dosing in Critically Ill Patients: A Multicenter Randomized Trial
The primary research question: In critically ill patients with nutrition 'risk factors', what is the effect of providing combined EN/PN to the group prescribed a higher dose (≥2.2 grams/kg/day) of protein/amino acid…
- Conditions
- Nutritional Disorder, Critical Illness, Malnutrition, Frailty
- Trial name
- EFFORTcombo (NCT04012333)
- Testing
- OLIMEL 7,6%E / PeriOLIMEL 2,5%E
- Where
- Germany
- Sponsor
- RWTH Aachen University
Critical Illness, Hyperglycemia
Relationship Between PTEN and Glycemic Variability and Outcome in Critically Ill Patients
Glycemic variability in critically ill patients is a recognized negative prognostic factor. The molecular mechanisms determining inter-patients variability in glucose metabolism during stress are not fully understood.
- Trial name
- GLUPTEN (NCT01796847)
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- University of Roma La Sapienza
Critical Illness, Pediatrics
Effect of Giving Reduced Fluid in Children After Trauma
This study is designed to help decide how much intravenous (IV) fluid should be given to pediatric trauma patients. No standard currently exists for managing fluids in critically ill pediatric trauma patients, and many fluid…
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, Pediatrics, General Surgery, Fluid Therapy
- Trial name
- NCT04201704
- Testing
- Balanced crystalloid solution volume administration, Packed Erythrocytes Units, Blood Product Unit volume, Plasma volume
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 250 people
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Critical Illness, Malnutrition
The EFFORT Trial and EFFORT Outcomes Sub-study (EFFORT-Outcomes)
The investigators will evaluate the effects of higher protein/amino acid dosing (≥2.2 g/kg/d) vs usual care of protein/amino acid dosing (≤1.2 g/kg/d) over muscle mass in nutritionally high risk ill patients
- Trial name
- NCT04931940
- Testing
- Usual Care, Higher Protein/Amino Acid Group
- Where
- 2 sites in Australia, Malaysia
- Volunteers
- 142 people
- Sponsor
- Clinical Evaluation Research Unit at Kingston General Hospital
Critical Illness
Topical Application of Silver Nanoparticles and Oral Pathogens in Ill Patients
The purpose of this study is to determine whether oral topic silver nanoparticles are effective to reduce potential pathogen microbial loads in mechanical ventilation patients.
- Trial name
- NCT02761525
- Testing
- silver nanoparticles
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosí
Critical Illness
Optimization Dose Study on Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Colistin in Critically Ill Patients
Phase II clinical trial, open-labelled, prospective and single-center study directed to obtain blood samples in experimental detailed conditions in order to compare and optimize the dose of colistin in critically ill patients…
- Trial name
- COLPHAR (NCT02408185)
- Testing
- Colistin 6 million units + 240mg/8h, Colistin 6 million units + 360mg/12h
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Fundación Pública Andaluza para la gestión de la Investigación en Sevilla
Critically Ill, Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Predictors of Upper Airway Function and Sleep-disordered Breathing in the Critically Ill
This is part 2 of the #NCT01618240 under the same IRB protocol #2010P001919. The primary objective of this study is to examine factors that are related to sleep-disordered breathing and upper airway patency in critically ill…
- Trial name
- NCT02112604
- Testing
- Ventilator, Alice PDx, Pulmonary function test
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Covid19, Pediatric ALL
Pediatric Intensive Care and COVID-19
In this prospective longitudinal cohort the investigators reported the clinical, and biological characteristics of all critically ill patients admitted in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of Bicêtre Hospital during the…
- Conditions
- Covid19, Pediatric ALL, Infection, Critical Illness
- Trial name
- CLOVIS (NCT04544878)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Bicetre Hospital
Hemodynamic Instability
Study of Ultrasonographic Cava Femoral Ratio in the Critically Ill Patient With Shock
This study aims to describe the ratio of the diameter of inferior vena cava to the common femoral vein measured by ultrasonography in critically ill patients with shock, and to evaluate the potential link between this ratio and…
- Trial name
- ECHO-RCF (NCT02891577)
- Testing
- Ultrasonography
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon
Evidence-Based Nursing, Critically Ill Patient
Enhancing Critical Thinking Competency and Nursing Quality in Critically Ill Patient Care
The EBN-based nutritional management protocol effectively enhances junior nurses' specialized critical thinking competency and improves patient nutritional outcomes and satisfaction, demonstrating its potential to optimize…
- Conditions
- Evidence-Based Nursing, Critically Ill Patient, Training
- Trial name
- NCT06997614
- Testing
- Conventional group, evidence-based nursing group
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 84 people
- Sponsor
- Taizhou Hospital
Linezolid, Antioxidant
Efficacy of Intravenous N-Acetylcysteine in Preventing Linezolid-Induced Thrombocytopenia in Critically Ill Patients
Study the effect of acetylcysteine on decreasing the incidence of LIT in critically ill patients. Study the impact of acetylcysteine on the time to onset of LIT and the time to recovery of platelets.
- Conditions
- Linezolid, Antioxidant, Thrombocytopenia, Critical Illness
- Trial name
- NCT05944458
- Testing
- N acetyl cysteine
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 250 people
- Sponsor
- Helwan University
Critical Illness, Acute Kidney Injury
Development of a Web-based Multicenter Registry on the Use of oXiris Membrane for EBPTs in Critically Ill Patients
The use of extracorporeal blood purification therapies (EBPT) is becoming increasingly widespread worldwide in everyday clinical practice, particularly in the critical care setting.
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, Acute Kidney Injury, Sepsis, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome
- Trial name
- NCT03807414
- Testing
- oXiris
- Where
- 12 sites in Italy
- Volunteers
- 270 people
- Sponsor
- Careggi Hospital
Critical Illness, Stress
Effects of a Psycho-cognitive Nursing Intervention on Patients' Outcomes in Critical Illness
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether a psycho-cognitive nursing intervention including relaxation, guided imagery, touch and music listening can improve the clinical and psychological outcome of critically ill…
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, Stress, Inflammatory Response
- Trial name
- NCT02423252
- Testing
- Massage, Relaxation, Guided imagery and music listening., No Intervention
- Where
- Cyprus
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dr Elizabeth Papathanassoglou
Muscle Weakness, Critical Illness
New Onset Weakness in Critically Ill Patients and the Risk of Death and Recurrent ICU Admission
This study seeks to define the morbidity of critical care polyneuropathy and to confirm that this diagnosis is, in fact, independently associated with increased mortality.
- Trial name
- NCT00106665
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 170 people
- Sponsor
- Naeem Ali, MD
Renal Failure, Bacterial Infections
Study of Ceftazidime-Avibactam Blood Concentrations in Intensive Care Unit Patients With Renal Failure Requiring Continuous Dialysis
The study's primary objective is to determine plasma and dialysis fluid concentrations in patients prescribed ceftazidime-avibactam as the standard treatment for their infection and requiring continuous venovenous…
- Conditions
- Renal Failure, Bacterial Infections, Critical Illness
- Trial name
- NCT03243864
- Testing
- Ceftazidime-avibactam
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- Temple University