Clinical trials: Critically Ill
Critical Illness, Sedation
Sedation Practices and Preferences of Turkish Intensive Care Physicians: National Survey
Sedation is one of the most common practices applied in intensive care units (ICU) and the management of sedation, analgesia and delirium is a quality measure in ICUs.
- Trial name
- NCT03488069
- Testing
- Survey
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 429 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istanbul University
Sleep Disorders
Protocol For Sleep for Critically Ill Patients
Sleep is essential for health and well-being. The quality of sleep impacts physical and cognitive aspects, including memory, immune system, and neuroendocrine function, with abnormalities associated with cardiovascular changes…
- Trial name
- NCT05996861
- Testing
- ICU sleep protocol
- Where
- 2 sites in Brazil
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospital Moinhos de Vento
Pediatric ALL, Critical Illness
Singapore's Health Outcomes After Critical Illness in Kids
What is the problem? Every year about 2.5 million children are affected by critical illness and require admission to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
- Conditions
- Pediatric ALL, Critical Illness, Post Intensive Care Unit Syndrome
- Trial name
- SHACK (NCT04637113)
- Testing
- This is a non-interventional study
- Where
- Singapore
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- KK Women's and Children's Hospital
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
CMV
Cytomegalovirus Infection in Critically Ill Patients and Patients Receiving Anticancer Therapy
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common member of the herpes viruses to infect humans. Its double-stranded linear DNA duplex contains 165 genes that encode viral proteins that mimic and interact with human cellular proteins and…
- Trial name
- CMV-ICU (NCT04280380)
- Testing
- Real time PCR
- Volunteers
- 400 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Fundación de investigación HM
Critical Illness
Decision Support Among Surrogate Decision Makers of the Chronically Critically Ill (INVOLVE)
Each year, millions of Americans are admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU). For more than half of them, ICU admission initiates a cascade of decisions about treatment and end-of-life care.This is particularly the case for…
- Trial name
- INVOLVE (NCT03099746)
- Testing
- INVOLVE, Informational Support, Usual Care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 281 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Case Western Reserve University
Deep Sedation
Clinical Performance of the Automated Closed-loop Minimum Viable Prototype
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate a minimum viable prototype for automated closed-loop administration of propofol in deep sedated patients under invasive mechanical ventilation in the ICU.
- Trial name
- NCT06187545
- Testing
- Minimum viable prototype, Usual care
- Where
- 3 sites in Chile
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Chile
Sepsis, Critical Illness
Provider Perspectives on Beta-lactam Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Programs in the Critically Ill
The purpose of the study is to characterize various healthcare practitioners' perspectives on implementation of beta-lactam therapeutic drug monitoring in critical care practice.
- Trial name
- NCT04755777
- Where
- 3 sites in United States, Australia
- Volunteers
- 138 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
ICU Acquired Weakness
ICU CONNECT: Study Comparing EMG in Healthy Volunteers and ICU Patients.
This study is testing whether a non-invasive nerve monitoring device (TetraGraph) can accurately detect early signs of ICU-acquired weakness by comparing readings from the device with standard nerve conduction/EMG tests done by a…
- Trial name
- ICU CONNECT (NCT07699562)
- Testing
- TetraGraph, Electromyography, Nerve conduction studies
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Endeavor Health
Critical Illness, Hypnotics and Sedatives
Generalized Versus Personalized Music Therapy in the ICU to Reduce Sedation
Admission to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is one of the major causes of stress and both physical and emotional difficulties for critically ill patients, both because of the illness that caused the admission and of the ICU…
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, Hypnotics and Sedatives, Music Therapy
- Trial name
- NCT03280329
- Testing
- Generalized Music therapy, Personalized Music therapy
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 153 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Milan
Antimicrobial Drug Resistance, Antibiotic Resistant Infection
Dynamics of Colonization and Infection by Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens in Immunocompromised and Critically Ill Patients
The goal of this observational study is to investigate how bacterial populations from the intestine and mouth of patients change during the hospitalization period and evaluate if some populations of specific bacteria increase or…
- Conditions
- Antimicrobial Drug Resistance, Antibiotic Resistant Infection, Clostridium Difficile, Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Infection
- Trial name
- DYNAMITE (NCT06258551)
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Methodist Hospital Research Institute
Circulatory Failure
Fluid Responsiveness Predicted by PtcO2 in Critically Ill Patients
Our goal was to study the feasibility of predicting fluid responsiveness by transcutaneous partial pressure of oxygen (PtcO2) in the critically ill patients.
- Trial name
- PtcO2-FR (NCT02083757)
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 19 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Southeast University, China
SARS-Associated Coronavirus, Covid19
Treatment of Critically Ill Patients With Covid-19 With Convalescent Plasma
This study aims to collect convalescent plasma and use it as experimental treatment in critically ill Covid-19 patients in order to reduce mortality and length of stay in intensive care unit.
- Conditions
- SARS-Associated Coronavirus, Covid19, SARS-CoV Infection
- Trial name
- NCT04468009
- Testing
- Convalescent plasma
- Where
- Argentina
- Volunteers
- 134 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospital de Infecciosas Francisco Javier Muniz
Critical Illness, Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit
Pilot Feasibility Study of a Pragmatic Mixed-Methods Randomized Controlled Trial on a Follow-Up Bundle of Care for ICU Survivors and Caregivers
~80% of ICU survivors experience profound long-term cognitive, physical, and psychiatric impairments known as post-intensive care syndrome (PICS).
- Trial name
- IMPACT-ICU (NCT06681649)
- Testing
- Intervention
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Queen's University
Healthy
Comparison of Ertapenem Distribution in the Muscle of Six Healthy Volunteers and Six Critically Ill Patients by Microdialysis
Ertapenem is an antibiotic that is highly bound to plasma protein (> 95%). The effects of this high protein binding on tissue distribution of antibiotics have been few evaluated yet.
- Trial name
- NCT01061047
- Testing
- Ertapeneme
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Poitiers University Hospital
Delirium
Effect of Early Cognitive Stimulation Interventions on Delirium Among Critically Ill Patients
Delirium is an acute change in attention and awareness that develops over a relatively short time interval and associated with additional cognitive deficits such as memory deficit, disorientation, or perceptual disturbances.
- Trial name
- NCT06115863
- Testing
- Early Cognitive Stimulation Interventions
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 130 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Damanhour University
Augmented Renal Clearance, Critical Illness
Incidence and Associated Risk Factors of ARC in the Trauma Critically Ill Older Than 50 Years Old
This single-center prospective cohort study conducted at the adult trauma ICU of the Montreal General Hospital (MGH) affiliated with the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) aims to determine the incidence and associated risk…
- Conditions
- Augmented Renal Clearance, Critical Illness, Polytrauma, Traumatic Brain Injury
- Trial name
- NCT04766944
- Testing
- No intervention
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
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
Critical Illness
Developing and Testing a Nurse-Led Technology-Enhanced Family Engagement Program
Family engagement in care for ICU patients is essential to ensure patient-centered clinical outcomes such as reducing ICU length of stay (LOS) by about a day, and hospital LOS from 3.78 days to 2.29 days.
- Trial name
- NCT06128655
- Testing
- Participation in PFCC-IR
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 29 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Critical Illness, Dysphagia
Detection of Neuromuscular Complications in Critically Ill Patients
Dysphagia and the intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICU-AW) are common and outcome-relevant neuromuscular complications in critically ill patients, especially after prolonged mechanical ventilation, sepsis and multi-organ…
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, Dysphagia, Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness, Neuromuscular Diseases
- Trial name
- NMCiCIP (NCT04541602)
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 5 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Rostock