Active clinical trials for "Abdominal Pain"

The purpose of this study is to determine if two treatments, a biofeedback and behavioral protocol, for recurrent abdominal pain are equally effective.

This trial will investigate the potential of a bioactive peptide to reduce symptoms of digestive discomfort in a generally healthy elderly population. Participants will consume the bioactive peptide for 12 weeks and various measures indicating an improvement in health and well being will be taken throughout the trial. It is believed that consumption of the study product will reduce the severity of digestive discomfort, reduce chronic inflammation, improve blood glucose metabolism and improve physical performance.

The purpose of this study is to ascertain if the use of Nexium for 7 days prior to taking a colon prep for a colonoscopy will decrease the side effects that are associated with the colon preparation

To improve the safety of diagnosis and therapy for a set of conditions and undifferentiated symptoms for hospitalized patients, the investigators will employ a set of methods and tools from the disciplines of systems engineering, human factors, quality improvement,and data analytics to thoroughly analyze the problem, design and develop potential solutions that leverage existing current technological infrastructure, and implement and evaluate the final interventions. The investigators will engage the interdisciplinary care team and patient (or their caregivers) to ensure treatment trajectories match the anticipated course for working diagnoses (or symptoms), and whether they are in line with patient and clinician expectations. The investigators will use an Interrupted time series (ITS) design to assess impact on diagnostic errors that lead to patient harm. The investigators will perform quantitative and qualitative evaluations using implementation science principles to understand if the interventions worked, and why or why not.

Many medical specialties and paramedical fields are increasingly using point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS). In daily practice, abdominal pain accounts for 7% to 10% of emergency department consultations, while the mean reported prevalence of abdominal pain in family physician consultations is 2.8%. PoCUS can be used in a variety of ways during abdominal physical examinations, and most scientific societies encourage its use to address a specific clinical question rather than provide a diagnosis, which is usually confirmed by comprehensive ultrasound in radiology. The integration of PoCUS into clinical examination raises the issue of PoCUS accuracy to improve the diagnostic approach as opposed to PoCUS diagnostic accuracy itself. Considering the wide range of differential diagnoses associated with right upper quadrant pain, this multicenter prospective study protocol aims to evaluate the improvement of the diagnostic approach using PoCUS in patients presenting at an emergency department with right upper quadrant abdominal pain. In light of the final diagnosis at 1-month follow-up, two members of an adjudication committee will blindly choose between two case report forms: one filled in before PoCUS and the other completed after the use of PoCUS by the investigator in charge of a patient suffering from right upper quadrant abdominal pain. The hypothesis that PoCUS enhances diagnostic approaches by 18% will be reached if 74.8% of the better diagnostic approaches are in favor of the case report form filled in after PoCUS.

Study on Evaluating the Promote Effect of Yili Mei Yi Tian Active Lactobacillus Drink on Immunity and Physical Intestinal Canal

In this double-blinded randomized clinical trial study, investigators assessed probiotic used to prevent or delay radiation induced grade moderate to severe diarrhea with patient treated for pelvic cancer.

Dexmedetomidine if add to patient controlled epidural analgesia for patients undergoing major abdominal cancer surgery may improve its effects.

Surgeons are the individuals who will operate on a patient if it is determined to be necessary after they present with abdominal pain. For that reason, the investigators want to study if giving a medicine (morphine) to children presenting to the ED with abdominal pain will alleviate pain without changing the patient's physical exam and the subsequent surgeon's decision. The investigators also will record any side effects of morphine, any associated surgical complications, and to identify the ultimate diagnosis.

Non-traumatic abdominal pain is one of the most frequent complaints in Emergency Medicine. Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) has good performance in these situations. It is performed at the patient's bedside with immediate results. It has been demonstrated that a clinician-performed ultrasound was able to increase the diagnosis accuracy in patients with acute abdominal pain. However, the level of evidence of its diagnostic efficacy remains controversial in particular in Europe. The principal investigators thus aimed to investigate the efficacy of early POCUS on diagnostic accuracy in the context of of non-traumatic abdominal pain by a randomized control study conducted in two emergency departments (ED). Secondary objectives will be comparison between the two groups for time spent in the ED before diagnosis and disposition (discharged home or hospitalization), prescription of complementary examinations and in particular, radiologic exams.