Active clinical trials for "Sepsis"

Myocardial microcirculatory alterations may be involved in the pathogenesis of acute cardiac dysfunction or septic cardiomyopathy in septic patients. The investigators study the cardiac function (systolic and diastolic) with two-dimensional echocardiography (TTE), and the myocardial microcirculation with contrast echocardiography (MCE) and sulphur hexafluoride microbubbles Sonovue injection in ICU septic patients.

Investigators will conduct a pragmatic randomized trial to investigate the non-inferiority of restricted use of invasive arterial lines compared to standard arterial line use.

Sepsis is a significant public health concern worldwide, with high morbidity and mortality. With regard to a targeted antimicrobial treatment strategy, the earliest possible pathogen detection is of crucial importance. Until now, culture-based detection methods represent the diagnostic gold standard, although they are characterized by numerous limitations. Culture-independent molecular diagnostic procedures may represent a promising alternative. In particular, droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) is a novel one-step PCR assay that achieves higher accuracy and sensitivity in detecting causing pathogens in patients with bloodstream infections.

The aim of this research study is to compare two different fluids (Human Albumin Solution (HAS) and Balanced Crystalloid that are given via a drip to patients with severe infection (sepsis). The investigators plan to see which fluid is better, and to see if they have a role in improving a patient's recovery time, reducing complications and the length of time they stay in hospital. This study plans to find out if there is evidence that one fluid is better overall to determine the need for a subsequent definitive trial.

We plan to include children with intestinal failure, a condition where the gut is not functioning properly, leading these children to need central venous catheters (line that goes through the skin into the blood stream) for nutritional support and hydration. Such patients have a very high risk for catheter infection. The study will include placing an agent (sodium bicarbonate) into the central catheter when the catheter is not in use. This is referred to as a lock. The lock would be used daily and removed when patients start their nutritional support and hydration through the catheter.

This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-parallel intervention clinical study that will include approximately 38 healthy subjects based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. Subjects will be assigned to one of four different dosage cohorts. Subjects in each cohort will randomly be given experimental drug or a placebo.

Patients hospitalized in ICU with sepsis (infection with life-threatening organ dysfunction according to sepsis 3.0 definitions) or septic shock presumably due to MDR-GNB (multidrug resistant Gram-negative bacteria). The study will be a prospective multicentre, randomized, open-label comparative continuous vs. intermittent pivotal βL (Beta Lactamine) antibiotic infusion strategies and combination vs. monotherapy trial conducted with a 2X2 factorial design.

Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by the host's maladjusted response to infection. It is one of the common clinical critical diseases, often accompanied by multiple organ failure, immune imbalance and high mortality. Sepsis is a syndrome of physiological, pathological and biochemical abnormalities caused by infection. Its incidence rate and prevalence have been on the rise in the past few years. Sepsis has greatly endangered the lives and health of the public. Among them, ARDS is a fatal complication of sepsis and a common critical illness syndrome in ICU. At present, the conventional treatment for ARDS caused by sepsis is still limited to indirect supportive therapy such as primary disease treatment, infection control, mechanical ventilation support, and nutrition improvement, lacking specific direct treatment methods. So far, the drug treatment effect of ARDS at home and abroad is not satisfactory. Therefore, it has become an urgent task to find a new treatment strategy to alleviate ARDS. Neutrophil elastase inhibitors can reversibly and competitively inhibit the release of neutrophil elastase, inhibit the activation of neutrophils and the infiltration of inflammatory cells in the lungs, alleviate the release of inflammatory mediators, and thus improve respiratory function, which has a good protective effect on various experimental ARDS. However, the efficacy of neutrophil elastase inhibitor represented by sivelestat sodium in the treatment of ARDS has reached a relatively consistent positive conclusion in animal experiments, while the results of clinical studies are different. These differences in clinical research still need further analysis, research and verification in clinical trials. At present, the clinical studies of neutrophil elastase inhibitors in the treatment of sepsis induced ARDS are very few, and there is a lack of related prospective randomized controlled clinical studies. Therefore, further prospective clinical trials are needed to evaluate the therapeutic effect of neutrophil elastase inhibitors on sepsis induced ARDS patients. This study is intended to determine whether neutrophil elastase inhibitor can reduce the mechanical ventilation time, Murray lung injury score, ICU hospitalization time and 28-day mortality of septic ARDS patients compared with the control group through a single center randomized controlled trial, so as to provide a new basis for the treatment strategy of septic ARDS patients.

The aim of this study is to develop a faster, safer, and more accurate method for determining if a newborn has an infection. This study involves analyzing saliva for markers of infection and inflammation known as cytokines. We will analyze infant's saliva repeatedly for inflammatory biomarkers (cytokines) within the first 36 hours of their standard of care treatment. We hypothesize that levels of these cytokines will more quickly predict which babies are truly infected and which babies are not compared to the blood tests currently being used.

Older sepsis survivors have poor physical function and need post-sepsis physical rehabilitation. Often times, sepsis survivors live far from research facilities and do not have access to rehabilitation services. Remotely delivered exercise intervention could be the key to improve physical function in this population. Therefore, the study proposes to recruit older sepsis survivors at discharge from the hospital to home and assign them to either exercise training or standard care.