Clinical trials: Environmental Contamination
Disinfection
Impact of Enhanced Daily Disinfection on Environmental Contamination in Hospital Rooms
The purpose of this study is to determine if enhanced daily application of disinfectant with persistent 24-hour activity decreases the environmental bioburden compared to standard practice.
- Trial name
- NCT05739955
- Testing
- Sani24, Standard EPA-registered disinfectant, Routine Disinfection
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 475 people
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Exposure to Environmental Pollution, Adverse Effect of Unspecified General Anesthetic
Anesthetic Gas Leakage in Children During Tonsillectomy: a Comparison of Cuffed and Uncuffed Tracheal Tubes
Fires and operating room pollution may occur when anesthesia gases leak into the oropharynx during airway surgery. Investigators sought to measure the concentrations of anesthetic gases that leak into the mouth of children…
- Trial name
- NCT02725164
- Testing
- oxygen concentration, nitrous oxide concentration, carbon dioxide concentration
- Volunteers
- 31 people
- Sponsor
- State University of New York at Buffalo
Mycosis
Sautour PHRC IR 2008
Fusarium are microscopic filamentous fungi that live as saprobiontics in outside environments. They are found in the soil, the air, in water and on numerous plants.
- Trial name
- SautourPHRCI08 (NCT02859831)
- Testing
- water samples
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 551 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon
Coronavirus, Covid19
Impact of Aerosol Box Use on Healthcare Provider Contamination
Aerosol Generating Medical Procedures (AGMP) are procedures that have the potential to create tiny particles suspended in the air. These particles can contain germs such as viruses.
- Conditions
- Coronavirus, Covid19, COVID-19 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Trial name
- NCT04880668
- Testing
- Aerosol Box (Splashguard)
- Where
- 4 sites in United States, Canada
- Volunteers
- 122 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- KidSIM Simulation Program
Colon Cancer, Rectal Cancer
the Effect of Environmental Factors on Colorectal Cancer Based on Macrogenomes
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of environmental factors, such as air pollution, on the occurrence, development and prognosis of colorectal cancer; to identify metabolic markers specific to colorectal cancer…
- Trial name
- NCT06852495
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dong Peng
SARS-CoV Infection, Covid19
'4C' Intervention to Reduce SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) Transmission
Nursing homes have long faced special challenges in implementing effective infection prevention programs, including limited resources and diagnostic challenges in a frail functionally disabled long-stay population.
- Trial name
- NCT04739449
- Testing
- Coaching, Cleaning, Communication, Collaboration
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Correlation Between Environmental Pollution and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) refers to the abnormal glucose metabolism index of pregnant women during pregnancy. At present, about 15% of pregnant women will develop GDM in the second and third trimester, which seriously…
- Trial name
- NCT05388721
- Testing
- Clinical data and specimen collection
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 2,500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Women's Hospital School Of Medicine Zhejiang University
Exposure to Environmental Pollution, Exposure to Household Air Pollution
Applied Implementation Research for Clean Cooking in Cambodia
The goal of this study is to learn how to help families in Cambodia switch to using electric induction stoves instead of traditional stoves that burn wood or charcoal.
- Trial name
- AIR-C3 (NCT06942715)
- Testing
- Electric Induction Cookstoves
- Where
- Cambodia
- Volunteers
- 6,150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Emory University
Biomarkers of Air Pollution Exposure
Biomarkers of Exposure to Air Pollutants (AEROTOX-2)
Nowadays, an increase of inflammatory chronic diseases and/or tumors incidence has been reported in part due to the rising in life expectancy.
- Trial name
- AEROTOX-2 (NCT02765529)
- Testing
- Blood sampling
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 101 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Lille Catholic University
Environmental Microbiology, Equipment Contamination
Bacterial Contamination of Anaesthetists' Hands by Personal Mobile Phones Used in the Operating Theatre
The use of mobile phones in the operating room (OR) has become widespread, because of the lack of reports on serious problems. Since mobile phones are used in close body contact and since, as for most non-medical electronic…
- Conditions
- Environmental Microbiology, Equipment Contamination, Personnel, Hospital
- Trial name
- NCT00416936
- Where
- Austria
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medical University Innsbruck
Diarrhea, Infantile, Infection Gastrointestinal
PAthogen Transmission and Health Outcome Models of Enteric Disease
The objective of the PATHOME study is to (1) develop statistical and computational methods for examining a complex disease system of interactions between and amongst children, animals, the environment, and enteric pathogens and…
- Conditions
- Diarrhea, Infantile, Infection Gastrointestinal, Stunting, Wasting
- Trial name
- PATHOME (NCT05322655)
- Where
- Kenya
- Volunteers
- 286 people
- Sponsor
- State University of New York at Buffalo
Asthma in Children
Consequences of COVID 19 Pandemic on Childhood Asthma
The SARS-CoV2 pandemic, which emerged in the first quarter of 2020, has led to an unprecedented health crisis in our modern healthcare systems and has resulted in strong national public health measures.
- Trial name
- VIRASTHCOVID (NCT04821908)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 577 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Lille
Corona Virus Infection, Critical Illness
The Change of Critical Patient Managements and Subsequent Influences Under Epidemic of Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19)
In the ER of National Taiwan University Hospital, the critical patients are treated (including tracheal intubation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation) in either resuscitation area or negative pressure isolation rooms based on the…
- Trial name
- NCT04479332
- Testing
- Tracheal intubation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 198 people
- Sponsor
- National Taiwan University Hospital
Environmental-Pollution-Related Condition
Nitrous Oxide Frequency of Use and Causes in Hospital in Turkey
The prevalence of nitrous oxide use in hospitals in Turkey
- Trial name
- NCT04124562
- Testing
- Nitrous Oxide
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 170 people
- Sponsor
- Yuzuncu Yil University
Exposure to Environmental Pollution
Impact of Exposure to Environmental Pollutants on Birth Outcomes in an Israeli Cohort
Objectives and hypothesis The scale and diversity of chemicals in worldwide use today is vast. Many of these chemicals are released into the environment where they are found in air, water, soil, house dust, and in the food…
- Trial name
- NCT03084445
- Where
- 3 sites in Israel
- Volunteers
- 2,394 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center
Inflammation
hsCRP Clinical Inflammation Marker for Human Bisphenol A Food Contamination
Dietary intervention studies thus far have failed to be replicable or causal.This is particularly relevant regarding plastic-derived chemicals (PDCs),This first-of-a-kind dietary intervention study explores a potential causal…
- Trial name
- NCT04600765
- Testing
- hsCRP serum measurement of inflammation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Center for Research on Environmental Chemicals in Humans
Premature Birth, Fetal Growth Retardation
NACER II: Reducing Prenatal Exposures to Household Air Pollution in Rural Guatemala Through a Gas Stove/Behavior Intervention to Improve Neonatal Health
Greater efforts are needed to bring affordable, clean stoves and adaptive behavioral strategies to the millions of households worldwide that continue to burn solid cooking fuels using inefficient stoves.
- Conditions
- Premature Birth, Fetal Growth Retardation, Infections, Respiratory, Exposure to Environmental Pollution, Non-occupational
- Trial name
- NCT02812914
- Testing
- Low-cost gas stove, Peer education classes, Resource-intensive behavioral intervention approach
- Where
- Guatemala
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Clostridium Difficile Infection
Does Fidaxomicin Therapy Reduce Spread of Clostridium Difficile?
This study evaluates whether patients with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) who are treated with fidaxomicin have less contamination of their skin and surrounding environment with spores of C.
- Trial name
- NCT02461901
- Testing
- Environmental sampling, Skin swab sampling, Fecal sampling
- Where
- 3 sites in United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 203 people
- Sponsor
- Professor Mark Wilcox
Environmental-Pollution-Related Condition
Characterization of a Population Living in Highly Contaminated Settlement in Campania Region
some areas in the Campania region (southern Italy) have attracted media coverage in the past 15 years, and are considered a dramatic example of an extremely polluted area.
- Trial name
- SPES (NCT05976126)
- Testing
- Determination of dioxins (PCDD/Fs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and trace elements
- Volunteers
- 4,227 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Francesca De Filippis
Placental Disease
Imaging Innovations for Placental Assessment in Response to Environmental Pollution (PARENTs)
How environmental pollution contributes to poor pregnancy outcome is poorly understood. The first trimester of pregnancy is a particularly vulnerable time period for the developing fetus and a mother's exposure to air pollution…
- Trial name
- PARENTs (NCT02786420)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 199 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles