Found 291 clinical trials
Investigation of Sleep in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU-SLEEP)
Sleep deprivation is common and severe in critically ill patients cared for in intensive care units (ICUs), and is hypothesized to be a key modifiable risk factor for delirium and long-term cognitive disability. Dexmedetomidine reduces the incidence of delirium in ICU patients by unknown mechanisms. This project will determine whether …
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- 04 Mar, 2022
Palliative Care Educator (VIDEO-PCE)
The investigators propose to conduct a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial of an advance care planning (ACP) educator-led intervention among hospitalized patients aged 65 and over, or any patient with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) and their proxy decision-makers in the ward and ICU settings of two major hospitals: …
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- 14 Jun, 2022
- 2 locations
Intensive Versus Conventional Hyperglycemic Control in Hospitalized Non-critically Ill Patients
Hyperglycemia is a common condition among hospitalized patients. The occurrence of severe hyperglycemia is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in several populations. Several trials assessed the benefits of aggressive versus conventional glucose control. These studies evaluated different patient populations, glucose targets and treatment protocols and as a result reported …
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- 03 Mar, 2022
- 2 locations
Facilitating Communication Study (FCS2)
This study is a randomized clinical trial of an intervention to improve outcomes for patients and their family by using ICU nurse facilitators to support, model, and teach communication strategies that enable patients and their families to secure care in line with patients' goals of care over an illness trajectory, …
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- 07 Feb, 2022
- 3 locations
Sodium Bicarbonate for the Treatment of Severe Metabolic Acidosis With Moderate or Severe Acute Kidney Injury in ICU (BICARICU-2)
Severe metabolic acidemia in the critically ill (pH equal or less than 7.20; PaCO2 equal or less than 45mmHg and bicarbonate concentration equal or less than of 20 mmol/l) is associated with a 50% rate of day 28 mortality. Moderate to severe acute kidney injury is a frequent cause of …
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- 23 Mar, 2022
- 1 location
Controlled Fluid Removal in Critical Ill Patients With Fluid Overload in the Intensive Care Unit. (GODIF)
This study evaluates the benefits and harms of goal directed fluid removal with furosemide versus placebo in critical ill adult patients with fluid overload in the intensive care unit. Half of the patients will receive furosemide and the other half placebo. The treatment will continue until the excess fluid is …
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- 26 May, 2022
- 13 locations
ErythroPOietin Alfa to Prevent Mortality and Reduce Severe Disability in Critically Ill TRAUMA Patients (EPO-TRAUMA)
The EPO-TRAUMA study is a prospective, multi-centre, double-blind, phase III, randomised controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of epoetin alfa compared to placebo in reducing mortality and severe disability at six months in critically ill trauma patients. 2500 mechanically ventilated ICU patients admitted with a primary trauma diagnosis presenting to the …
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- 11 Aug, 2022
- 21 locations
SedAting With Volatile Anesthetics Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients in ICU: Effects On Ventilatory Parameters And Survival
Patients suffering lung failure, possibly from COVID-19 or hypoxic lung failure, will need life-saving support from a breathing machine. Any patient needing this support requires drugs to keep them sleepy, or "sedated" to be comfortable on this machine. Sedation is made possible by using drugs given through a vein. Unfortunately, …
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- 27 Apr, 2021
- 13 locations
I-SPY COVID-19 TRIAL: An Adaptive Platform Trial for Critically Ill Patients
The goal of this project is to rapidly screen promising agents, in the setting of an adaptive platform trial, for treatment of critically ill COVID-19 patients. In this phase 2 platform design, agents will be identified with a signal suggesting a big impact on reducing mortality and the need for, …
- 160 views
- 30 Jul, 2021
- 19 locations
Supplemental Enteral Protein in Critical Illness
investigators will also collect data on important clinical outcomes, including infectious complications, duration of mechanical ventilation and other measures of recovery from critical illness.
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- 10 Aug, 2022
- 1 location