Clinical trials: Critically Ill
Malnutrition, Critical Illness
Anabolic Steroids for Nutritional Rehabilitation of Critically Ill Patients
This prospective, double-blinded study will determine the feasibility of determining the efficacy of a weekly intramuscular injection of nandrolone (an anabolic steroid) in malnourished ICU patients.The data from this study will…
- Trial name
- NCT00242463
- Testing
- Nandrolone (anabolic steroid)
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's
Critical Illness Polyneuromyopathy
Reference Values for Compound Muscle Action Potential Amplitude Obtained by Direct Muscle Stimulation
Direct muscle stimulation (DMS) method is one of the electrodiagnostic methods used in the diagnosis of critical illness myopathy (CIM) and critical illness neuropathy (CIN).
- Trial name
- NCT04227548
- Testing
- needle electromyography
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 29 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Adana City Training and Research Hospital
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, Sepsis
Vitamin D and Critically Ill Patients
The higher rate of vitamin D deficiency is spotted among patients being hospitalized or in critical condition. Especially, vitamin D level below normal prolongs hospital stay and increases incidence of adverse prognosis and…
- Trial name
- NCT01636232
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 234 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Chinese PLA General Hospital
Sepsis, Primary Myopathies
Muscle Force Assessment in the Intensive Care Unit and in Primary Myopathies
The primary aim of the project is to apply the non-invasive stimulated muscle force assessment system to i) intensive care unit patients and ii) patients with primary myopathy or subclinic myopathy (e.g., Duchenne muscular…
- Trial name
- NCT00735384
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 22 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
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
Sepsis, ARDS
Early Severe Illness TrAnslational BioLogy InformaticS in Humans
Advanced stages of the response to life-threatening infection, severe trauma, or other physiological insults often lead to exhaustion of the homeostatic mechanisms that sustain normal blood pressure and oxygenation.
- Conditions
- Sepsis, ARDS, Critical Illness, Neurocognitive Dysfunction
- Trial name
- ESTABLISH (NCT05591924)
- Testing
- Phelebotomy, Broncheoalveolar Lavage, Tracheal Aspirate
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's
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
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
Sepsis, Severe
Procalcitonin in Diagnosis of Sepsis in Critically Ill Patient
correlation between procalcitonin levels and the severity of sepsis and it's possibility to be used as a prognostic marker in patients with sepsis and severe sepsis
- Trial name
- NCT04105400
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Assiut University
Sepsis, Septic Shock
Release of Nociceptin From Granulocytes in Sepsis
Nociceptin is a protein found in the body, with a number of functions in the central nervous system, blood vessels and the gut. There is evidence that it may have a role in controlling the immune response to infection, and may…
- Conditions
- Sepsis, Septic Shock, Sepsis Syndrome, Severe Sepsis
- Trial name
- NCT03037281
- Testing
- Septic
- Where
- 2 sites in United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 14 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Leicester
Critical Illness
SC2i VIPER: EnVenomation Investigation Pilot to Evaluate Recovery
The purpose of this study is to pilot data for a systematic molecular characterization of pathophysiologic perturbations incurred by snake envenomation and compare this to other inflammatory physiologic states such as trauma and…
- Trial name
- VIPER (NCT03170297)
- Testing
- Research interventions of blood sampling and data collection
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 15 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
Acute Kidney Injury
Spironolactone on Acute Kidney Injury in Critically Ill Patients
This study was designed to evaluate the effect of spironolactone administration in the incidence and severity of AKI in patients critically ill with invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) in the critical care unit.
- Trial name
- NCT03206658
- Testing
- Spironolactone 25 mg
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran
Heart Defects, Congenital, Critical Illness
Leuven Growing Into Deficit Follow-up Study
The key objective of the Leuven growing-into-deficit (GID) follow-up-study is to test the hypothesis that children with a congenital heart disease (CHD) show more neurocognitive impairment at the second follow-up at 7 years old…
- Conditions
- Heart Defects, Congenital, Critical Illness, Mental Processes, Child
- Trial name
- Leuven-GID (NCT01632813)
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 172 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- KU Leuven
PTSD, Critical Illness
The Experiences of Children and Caregivers Given PICU Storybooks
1. To assess the acceptability and feasibility of a study design aimed at evaluating the efficacy of a newly developed intervention for children and their caregivers following discharge from PICU 2.
- Conditions
- PTSD, Critical Illness, Depression, Anxiety
- Trial name
- NCT04041401
- Testing
- PICU storybook
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Surrey
Critical Illness, Gender Equality
Ethnic and Gender Based Admittance Patterns in the ICU
The dominating proportion of patients in the ICU are men. Studies indicate that men receive more mechanical ventilation, vasoactive drugs, renal replacement therapy, invasive monitoring and have longer length of stay in the ICU.
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, Gender Equality, Discrimination, Sex, Discrimination, Racial
- Trial name
- EGAP-ICU (NCT05513456)
- Testing
- Randomization to a different factors in the case descriptions
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 5,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Karolinska Institutet
Ventilation Modes, Mechanical Ventilation
Effectiveness of Ventilation Modes in Intensive Care: A Comparison of Mandatory Minute Ventilation and Synchronized Intermittant Mandatory Ventilation Using Bioelectrical Impedance Tomography
Synchronized Intermittent Mandatory Ventilation (SIMV) is a commonly used ventilatory mode available in many modern ventilators, frequently applied in intensive care units for patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation.
- Conditions
- Ventilation Modes, Mechanical Ventilation, Critical Illness, Respiratory Support
- Trial name
- NCT06961227
- Testing
- No investigational intervention
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 25 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Harran University
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
Insufficient Lactation
Improving Lactation Success in Black Mothers of Critically Ill Infants
Racial disparities result in Black infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) receiving less breast milk (BM) than White and Hispanic infants.1 BM improves infant health yet mothers of critically ill infants produce…
- Trial name
- NCT05147987
- Testing
- Hands free wearable breast pump
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Florida
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
Hyperglycemia
Fat Based Enteral Nutrition for Blood Glucose Control in ICU
In this randomized, double-blind clinical trial, eligible hospitalized ICU patients with EN will be included. Patients will be divided into two groups.
- Trial name
- NCT02584907
- Testing
- High Fat Enteral Nutrition
- Where
- Iran
- Volunteers
- 88 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Shahid Beheshti University