Active clinical trials for "Critical Illness"

The purpose of the present study is to compare usual care in terms of mobilization performed to intubated ICU patients to a standardized program designed to deliver early mobilization at least 5 days a week. This study has a before / after design with a control group during the experimental phase. The first phase of the study corresponds to an observational phase during which every act of mobilization performed to the included patients is going to be documented. During this first study period, total duration of mechanical ventilation is going to be recorded for all the patients included. At the end of this first study period, the participating ICU are going to be randomized (Cluster randomization) in two groups either observational or experimental. The corresponding strategy is going to be applied to all the patients included during the second study period. During this second period, total duration of mechanical ventilation is also going to be recorded for all the patients included. The study hypothesis is that applying a protocolized early mobilization strategy increases the number of ventilator free-days during the 28 days after intubation in ICU patients.

The aim of this study is the establishment of a warehouse physiological data and biomedical signal in intensive care adult patients in acute situations from particular records from the Philips Intellivue MP70 monitor.

Between 10 and 15% of critically ill patients require platelet transfusion within their intensive care unit (ICU). Platelets (PLT) are given to prevent bleeding in thrombocytopenic patients or to treat bleeding as part of massive transfusion or in bleeding thrombocytopenic patients. International and local guidelines (American Association of Blood Banks-AABB) are mainly based on experts' opinion. The efficacy of PLT transfusion in the ICU setting remains poorly studied and unknown and the administration of PLT may be associated with adverse effects including an increased risk of hospital acquired infection. Finally, the short PLT shelve-life may be responsible for inventory issues. Altogether, this makes very important to improve the evidence that support PLT transfusion in ICU patients. This is a multicentre prospective observational study that aims to first determine PLT transfusion efficacy and to identify the parameters associated with transfusion efficacy and to analyse the compliance with international (and local) guidelines of PLT transfusion in ICU patients.

Malnutrition is very common in critically ill patients. It is quite important to evaluate nutritional status precisely. Heyland et al firstly reported NUTRIC score including age, APACHE II score, SOFA score, number of commorbidities, days from hospital to ICU admission and IL-6. Because the IL-6 is not routinely checked at ICU. A modified NUTRIC score without IL-6 is more practical. Previous studies showed lower in-hospital mortality in higher nutritional risk patients with higher caloric intake compared with lower caloric intake. However, there is still controversial regarding the in-hospital mortality between full caloric feeding and permissive underfeeding in critically ill patients. Herein the investigators conduct a study to investigate what kinds of nutritional supplements will decrease in-hospital mortality in different nutritional risk patients.

This multi-center retrospective cohort study presents a detailed assessment of augmented renal clearance (ARC) in a mixed population of adult critically ill patients. Epidemiology of ARC will be studied in detail in a very heterogeneous population. Risk factors for ARC will be identified and a predictive scoring system for ARC ready to use in clinical practice will be constructed and validated. Performance of estimators of kidney function will be measured and a cutoff for ARC will be determined for the best estimator. Finally clinical impact of ARC will be explored using vancomycine and aminoglycosides levels as surrogate marker.

The primary aim of this study is to assess if the mobility dose that patients receive in the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) predicts adverse discharge disposition (primary endpoint), and muscle wasting diagnosed by bedside ultrasound (secondary endpoint).

Supplementation of insufficient enteral nutrition with parenteral nutrition may optimize nutritional support and avert negative energy balance in critically ill patients, thereby improving outcome.

compare different enteral nutrition strategy in patients with mechanical ventilation

SPAC is a pilote monocentric prospective study about peritonitis and antibiotics pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic. The investigators will included 50 patients during 2 years in the University Hospital of Nancy. The aim of this study is to determine if the beta-lactam dosages recommended by the guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections (published by the Société française d'anesthésie et de réanimation (Sfar) in december 2015) permitted the achievement of adequatly serum and peritoneal concentrations in the medical and surgical management of peritonitis. The investigators will collected 3 pairs of serum and peritoneal fluid samples at 3 different times: peritoneal incision, arrival in ICU and 24 hours after admission in ICU in order to compare the concentrations and the minimal inhibitor concentration of bacteria. The hypothesis is that of a serum and peritoneal antibiotic under dosage.

The purpose of this study is to describe current practice on red blood cell transfusion in critically ill patients of intensive care units located in high altitude areas