Active clinical trials for "Sepsis"

In an effort to better understand the interaction between the different mediators, the investigators propose to examine the time course of mediators, the indexes of organ injury and the coagulation cascade.

The purpose of the study is to characterize innate immune function of premature infants, and identify defects that may be responsible for the development of bacterial sepsis.

The primary aim of the study is to demonstrate that mitochondrial dysfunction occurs in both skeletal muscle and circulating platelets of severely septic and septic shock ICU-admitted patients. Secondary aims are to clarify the pathogenesis and the clinical relevance of mitochondrial damage during sepsis.

A SpetiFast multiplex PCR kit has recently been placed on the market witch can evidence the DNA of 90% of micro-organisms (bacteria and fungus) implicated in sepsis. However, the clinical impact of being able to detect the DNA of these various agents is unknown. We propose to assess the benefit to patient care of the SeptiFast multiples PCR by answering three questions : 1/in patients with septic immunosuppression, does this kit evidence etiologic agents not revealed by classical methods? 2/Does the use of PCR results permit different diagnostic hypotheses to be considered? 3/Does having the SeptiFast results entail changes to the therapeutic plan?

A systemic treatment with corticosteroids has been advocated for various bacterial infectious diseases. Since the production of CRP is down-regulated by corticosteroids, a smaller increase or a more rapid decrease of this acute phase protein will: suggest attenuated systemic inflammation, but does not necessarily reflect adequate therapy of the infection. For several reasons (good diagnostic tool for sepsis, induction not decreased by immunosuppressive therapy), procalcitonin could be a better marker for activity of sepsis in patients under corticosteroids. As this issue has not yet been examined the investigators will prospectively study the time-course of PTC and CRP in a well-defined septic patient group, that in adjunction to antibiotic therapy also received systemic corticosteroid treatment and compare it to a similar group without corticosteroid treatment.

the aim of the study is to correlate between the severity of sepsis and serum heparin binding protein in the patients admitted to ICU with sepsis., and detect its value as a prognostic biomarker in sepsis

The investigators evaluated the electroencephalographic pattern by the Sinek and Young scales during ICU stay and its correlation with cognitive impairment determined by the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) in septic patients after 3 months of ICU discharge..

To explore the predictive value of peripheral perfusion index in late onset sepsis of very low birth weight infants , obtain the threshold by observing the perfusion index of very low birth-weight infants within one month after birth, this value can be used as a threshold to predict late onset sepsis in very low birth weight infants.

A study of short and long term mortality in patients treated with or without a diagnosis of sepsis in Swedish intensive care units (ICU) 2008 - 2016. The cohort is characterized with regard to chronic comorbidity, severity of acute illness and demographic factors, and outcome is adjusted for these factors. Changes in mortality during the period are studied.

The main purpose of this study is to compare the early detection of sepsis and the decision, by the Investigator to start or not, or to change, antibiotics in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients at high risk of sepsis, based on standard of care (clinical, laboratory and imaging data but not on PSP values), as well as timing of antibiotic de-escalation versus the the retrospective assessment (i.e., at the end of the study) of a First Endpoint Adjudication Committee (EAC) which is aware of the clinical data and of the PSP values but not of the Investigator's decision(s), and of the retrospective assessment of a Second Endpoint Adjudication Committee which is only aware of the PSP values. This study will follow the site's routine clinical practice for the diagnostic, assessment and treatment of the enrolled patients, with the exception of daily blood samples which will be taken for the PSP measurement using the AbioScope as well as another daily sample taken for central analysis of biomarkers of inflammation, infection and/or sepsis (including but not limited to C-reactive protein [CRP] and Procalcitonin [PCT]).