Clinical trials: Critically Ill Intensive Care Unit Patients
Critical Illness, Safety Issues
TraceBook: the Clinical Proof of Concept on the Intensive Care.
The effectiveness of current checklists is hampered by lack of acceptance and compliance. Recently, a new type of checklist with dynamic properties has been created to provide more specific checklist items for each individual…
- Trial name
- TraceBook (NCT03599856)
- Testing
- TraceBook
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 408 people
- Sponsor
- Catharina Ziekenhuis Eindhoven
Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit, Sleep Quality in Adult ICU Patients
Virtual Reality to Reduce Anxiety, Agitation and Delirium in Critically Ill Patients
This is a pilot feasibility study examining the use of immersive virtual reality (VR) in adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients.
- Conditions
- Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit, Sleep Quality in Adult ICU Patients, Agitation Associated With Critical Illness, Anxiety Acute
- Trial name
- NCT07649876
- Testing
- Virtual reality (VR) therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Covid19, Myocardial Infarction
Outcomes of Patients Who Survived Treatment on an Intensive Care Unit for COVID-19 in England and Wales
This retrospective cohort study aims to characterise outcomes for patients treated on an intensive care unit (ICU) with COVID-19 in England and Wales, one year after discharge from hospital.
- Conditions
- Covid19, Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, Critical Illness
- Trial name
- OPTIC-19 (NCT04838106)
- Testing
- Not applicable as observational study
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 319,600 people
- Sponsor
- University of Oxford
Critical Illness, Children
Early Versus Late Parenteral Nutrition in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
In the PEPaNIC trial it is investigated whether withholding parenteral nutrition during the first week in critically ill children is beneficial, compared to the current standard of the early start of parenteral nutrition.
- Trial name
- PEPaNIC (NCT01536275)
- Testing
- Late parenteral nutrition
- Where
- 3 sites in Belgium, Canada and 1 more
- Volunteers
- 1,440 people
- Sponsor
- KU Leuven
Pediatric Cancer, Critically Ill
ONCOTIPNET: Multicenter Study on Risk Factors and Outcome in Cancer Pediatric Patients Admitted in Italian PICUs
The study will describe characteristics of pediatric cancer patients admitted to Italian PICUs and will analyze risk factors of PICU admission, neurological outcome, and mortality.
- Trial name
- ONCOTIPNET (NCT04581655)
- Where
- 17 sites in Italy
- Volunteers
- 500 people
- Sponsor
- Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova
Oral Bacterial Colonization, Oral Hygiene
Effects of Three Oral Hygiene Protocols on Oral Bacteria in Intensive Care Patients
Patients in intensive care may develop changes in the bacteria found in their mouths. Some of these bacteria can cause infections, and patients who cannot clean their own teeth depend on staff to provide oral care.
- Trial name
- NCT07868549
- Testing
- Mechanical Oral Hygiene, Chlorhexidine, Hexetidine
- Where
- Croatia
- Volunteers
- 86 people
- Sponsor
- University of Zagreb
Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT), Acute Kidney Injury
Insights Into the Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy to Critical Ill Patients
This is a multinational, prospective, observational study designed to characterize patient demographics, prescription parameters, and process measures of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) in intensive care units (ICUs)…
- Conditions
- Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT), Acute Kidney Injury, Renal Dialysis, Critical Illness
- Trial name
- iCRRT (NCT07365111)
- Testing
- continuous renal replacement therapy
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 100,000 people
- Sponsor
- University of Alberta
Critical Illness, Hyperglycemia
Tight Glycemic Control in Critical Care Patients
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of tight control of serum glucose levels with an intensive insulin treatment in patients hospitalized in an intensive care unit with medical and surgical patients.
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, Hyperglycemia, Insulin Resistance
- Trial name
- NCT00096421
- Testing
- Tight control of blood glucose levels, Conventional control of glucose levels
- Where
- Colombia
- Volunteers
- 504 people
- Sponsor
- Hospital Pablo Tobón Uribe
Critical Illness, Post Intensive Care Unit Syndrome
pEEG Monitoring Effect on Delirium, Ventilator Days, and PICS
The goal of this multi-site observational study is to compare delirium rates, days on mechanical ventilation, and Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) rates in adult Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients.
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, Post Intensive Care Unit Syndrome, Post Intensive Care Syndrome, Mechanical Ventilation Complication
- Trial name
- NCT06019078
- Testing
- SedLine
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- Fraser Health
Thoracic Surgery, Cardiac Surgery
Comparison of Two Potassium Targets Within the Normal Range in Intensive Care Patients
Rationale: It is well known that distinctly abnormal blood potassium values can cause serious complications such as cardiac arrhythmias.
- Conditions
- Thoracic Surgery, Cardiac Surgery, Critically Ill
- Trial name
- GRIP-COMPASS (NCT01085071)
- Testing
- Potassium Chloride
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 1,225 people
- Sponsor
- University Medical Center Groningen
Critical Illness, Postoperative Complications
General Surgery Patients at the Intensive Care Unit
Introduction: high-risk surgical patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) are a unique population that has yet to be carefully monitored.
- Trial name
- TraViII (NCT06731296)
- Testing
- Presence of a risk factor
- Where
- 2 sites in Colombia
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people
- Sponsor
- Hospital Departamental de Villavicencio
Terminally Ill Patients
Mobile Shared Decision-Making Program for ICU Caregivers
By developing a smart mobile shared decision-making (SDM) model, this study aims to assist family members of critically ill end-stage patients in making appropriate decisions, enhance their decision quality, and evaluate the…
- Trial name
- NCT07469878
- Testing
- Experimental: Mobile technology devices
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 70 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- CHIA-HUI MA
Covid19, Critically Ill
Risk Factors for Mortality for COVID-19 Admitted to an Intensive Care Unit
Studying clinical characterization of critically ill COVID-19 patients in a single center Studying Risk factors for Day 28 Mortality in COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care unit
- Trial name
- ICUCOVID-KK (NCT04805645)
- Testing
- No intervention (Retrospective Cohort Observational)
- Where
- Malaysia
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Clinical Research Centre, Malaysia
Nosocomial Infection
Epidemiological Investigation of CRBSI, VAP, CAUTI in Chinese ICU
The current protocol desires to implement a large-multicenter observational study of hospital acquired infection in ICU in China.
- Trial name
- NCT01943331
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people
- Sponsor
- Southeast University, China
Sepsis, Septic Shock
Central Venous Catheter Colonisation Among Critically Ill Patients in Intensive Care Units
Background: Central Venous catheter insertion technique and indwelling time are major risk factors for CVC colonisation. Colonisation occurs through microbial migration and biofilm formation along the catheter insertion tract.
- Conditions
- Sepsis, Septic Shock, Post-cardiac Surgery, Post-Cardiorespiratory Arrest Coma
- Trial name
- NCT03270774
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Makerere University
Liver Transplantation, Infection
Italian National Study on the Critically Ill Liver Transplant Patient With an Infection
Despite major advances, infections remain one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT).
- Conditions
- Liver Transplantation, Infection, Sepsis, Intensive Care Unit
- Trial name
- INFE-OLT (NCT03363646)
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- Azienda Ospedaliero, Universitaria Pisana
Critical Illness, Respiratory Failure
Sedation in the Intensive Care Unit
High-risk critically ill patients often require mechanical ventilation either to primarily support the respiratory function or when the ventilation is insufficient to maintain adequate gas exchanges as a result of other organ…
- Trial name
- NCT00221520
- Testing
- midazolam with 2 different levels of sedation scores
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 126 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Geneva
Sepsis - to Reduce Mortality in the Intensive Care Unit
Procalcitonin Increase Identifies Critically Ill Patients at High Risk of Mortality
Procalcitonin, a marker of infection has often been compared to clinical pictures as for instance "clinical sepsis". This has given som problems in the interpretation of these studies, because of the lack of good Gold Standards…
- Trial name
- NCT00144638
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 450 people
- Sponsor
- Danish Procalcitonin Study Group
Metabolic Acidosis, Acid-Base Imbalance
Frequency of Metabolic Acidosis in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Metabolic acidosis is one of the most common acid-base disturbances encountered in critically ill children and often reflects underlying disease severity.
- Conditions
- Metabolic Acidosis, Acid-Base Imbalance, Critical Illness in Children
- Trial name
- NCT07803263
- Volunteers
- 140 people
- Sponsor
- Assiut University
Severe Malnutrition
Management and Treatment of Patients With Severe Malnutrition in Intensive Care Unit: a Registry
Severe malnutrition can be seen as a low BMI, great weight loss, and even low levels of micronutrients. Current studies on severe malnutrition are mainly in patient with anorexia nervosa.
- Trial name
- NCT03055104
- Testing
- management of severe malnutrition
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Peking University Third Hospital