Pneumonia Clinical Trials

Background and preliminary data: Our murine studies suggest that exposure to blue (480nm) light, by comparison to ambient white or amber (580nm) light, reduces the inflammatory response (i.e., cytokine concentration), risk of organ failure (i.e., kidney failure), and improves the clearance and control of the infectious focus (i.e., reduced abdominal ...

This prospective multicentre case-control registration study in Dutch and Belgian ICUs will assess the difference in incidence and outcome of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) in ICU patients with severe influenza compared with influenza-negative control patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia during the coming three influenza seasons (2017-2020). The study will further ...

The overall objective of the study is to determine if antibiotic therapy is beneficial in children with pneumonia who do not have a highly suspicious bacterial infection, such as in lobar pneumonia. Secondary objective is to determine whether antibiotic use influence the microbial flora, including antibiotic resistance, in the airways ...

There is actually no consensus in place defining for which patients with suspected inhalation pneumonia antibiotic treatment should be initiated and what the duration of this antibiotic treatment should be. This absence of recommendations results in excessive use of antibiotics, in emergence of multi-resistant strains and increase of costs. Several ...

This is a single site, pilot Phase 0/1 clinical trial to establish initial estimates of the human radiation dosimetry of 64Cu-DOTA-ECL1i. Healthy volunteers and participants who currently smoke cigarettes but do not have known pulmonary disease will be recruited. Twelve participants (N=6 healthy, N=6 current smokers) will undergo whole-body PET/CT ...

Adjunctive Therapy of AndrographolidSulfonate in Community Acquired Pneumonia: A Multicenter, Randomized,Double-blinded, Placebo Controlled Clinical Trial. The hypothesis is that combination therapy with Andrographolid Sulfonatein injection and antibacterial is significantly better than antibacterial alone in achieving clinical stability among hospitalized CAP patients.

Methodology The study is designed as a community based, cluster randomized, pragmatic, intervention trial. It will be conducted within the existing 2016-2020 project structure. Specifically, the intervention will evaluate the potential of the ChARM device to improve CHWs competency in counting respiratory rate and diagnose pneumonia more accurately in children ...

On clinical suspicion of VAP, breath samples will be collected from the expiratory limb of the patient's ventilator tubing circuit. A sterile Tedlar collection bag will be used to connect to the sample port and collect the breath sample. The expiratory limb sample port will be utilized to ensure maintenance ...

Background Bacterial infections account for a large proportion of global morbidity and mortality. While antimicrobial drugs have helped save millions from the consequences of these infections, emerging antimicrobial resistance now threatens to reverse those gains. The HIV-epidemic renders large populations drastically more susceptible to bacterial infections, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, ...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the ICU, accounting for 25% of the total infections occurring in this setting and 50% of all antibiotic prescriptions in patients who are mechanically ventilated.1,2 The incidence of VAP depends not only on the type of ...