Active clinical trials for "Critical Illness"

The current study will enroll critically ill patients who are going to require enteral nutrition support and randomize them to standard formula enteral nutrition or pectin-supplemented enteral nutrition in 7 days. The occurrence of enteral nutrition-related complications will be recorded and compared between groups. The study is trying to assess whether the use of pectin will improve the enteral nutrition-related complications in critically ill patients.

In severe infective patients who survive the initial inflammatory storm, the immune response often evolves toward a state of immunosuppression, which contributes to increased mortality and severe secondary hospital-acquired infections. However, the role of IL-6 and its receptor antagonists in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock is discussed controversially. To date, the efficacy and safety of IL-6 and its receptor antagonists in children with severe infection is not fully evaluated.

This study evaluates the effect of airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) on lung homogeneity and recruitment in patients with moderate to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). It will do this by comparing the homogeneity of ventilation and recruitment prior to a patient being ventilated on APRV, and at 30, 60 and 120 minutes after starting APRV.

Multiple organ failure (MODS) is still the leading cause of death in children in ICU. The treatment of MODS is mainly organ function monitoring and organ replacement therapy. Life support technology in vitro mainly includes mechanical ventilation, continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), non-biological artificial liver and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation technology (ECMO). However, critically ill patients who have multiple organ failure often require multiple organ support meanwhile. Combined extracorporeal life support (CELS) is still in its infancy to be applied in the treatment of critical illness due to nonstandard technology and theory without key breakthroughs and evidence-based medicine in the treatment of severe children organ failure.Solving the system problems supported by CELS can effectively reduce the mortality and disability rate of critically ill children and enhance health care in Shanghai, even across China.

Acute kidney injury (AKI) in Covid-19 patients is a topic that receives little attention in the literature, although being important in clinical practice in the ICU, particularly in Oman. Our objective was to determine the incidence of AKI, risk factors, and the requirement of renal replacement treatment. Methods: All adult patients hospitalized at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital in the critical care unit (ICU) between March 2020 and September 2021 with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 had their medical records retrospectively reviewed. All patient characteristics, their course of events, and the treatment received in ICU were noted. The incidence of AKI, its association with the glycemic index, and other possible risk factors will be studied. Those requiring renal replacement therapy will be studied in terms of its predictors and outcomes.

Many studies have pointed out that patients with vitamin D deficiency have a longer stay in the intensive care unit and a poor prognosis. Previous multi- center prospective observational study in Taiwan reveals that the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in critically ill patients in northern Taiwan is 59%, and the prevalence of severe vitamin D deficiency is 18%. Several prediction models of vitamin D deficiency had been built for the general population but not patients admitted in intensive care units. This multi-center retrospective study aims to develop and validate a score-based prediction model for severe vitamin D deficiency in critically ill patients. Investigators will review the data of previous multicenter, prospective, observational study. For temporal validation, the data will be divided into a derivation cohort (first 80% of the data set based on chronology) and a validation cohort (the remaining data set). The development and validation of the models will be carried out following the recommendations established in the Transparency Reporting of a multivariable prediction model for Individual Prognosis or Diagnosis (TRIPOD) initiative.

This study will examine the differences in microcirculatory function and mitochondrial respiration in patients with shock after cardiovascular surgery.

A study consisting of a prospective and retrospective cohort in the ICU, ER and pulmonary department in a university hospital in Amsterdam and a teaching hospital in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. The relationship between the oxygen saturation measured by pulse-oximetry and the arterial PaO2 is investigated in order to investigate which transcutaneous saturation values are safe when administering oxygen in relation to hyperopia and hypoxia.

Systemic inflammation and sepsis cause multi organ failure including severe neurologic impairment in the course of disease. Neurologic failure typically presents as critical-illness-polyneuropathy/-myopathy and septic encephalopathy during sepsis and is associated with an increased mortality rate. Clinical parameters to determine the neurologic entities during the course of sepsis are heterogeneous. Further research for an association of clinical parameters and the patients' outcome is needed. The study aims toward differences in the clinical and neurological outcome of surgical and non-surgical septic patients in comparison to non-septic patients on ICU. The aim of the study is to identify clinical and diagnostic outcome predictors in septic patients.

The state of hyperhydration in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with increased mortality. Bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA) appears to be a viable method to access the fluid status of critical patients but has never been evaluated in critical patients with AKI. The objective of this study is to evaluate the hydration status using BIVA in critical patients under intensive care at the time of AKI diagnosis and to correlate this measurement with mortality. A sample of 224 patients with AKI will be evaluated by BIVA and followed until they are discharged or death in intensive care unit and the BIVA vectors will be analysed to define differences in hydration characteristics from each group.