Active clinical trials for "Wounds and Injuries"

The object of this study is to investigate the damage to the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) and ganglion cell complex layer (GCL+) in diabetic patients without retinal microangioma as detected by fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA) and to determine the kind of nerve damage more likely to indicate early injury.

Impairing drugs and alcohol are major risk factors for traumatic injuries. Still there is to date little knowledge to what extent these factors affect the epidemiology of trauma. Detailed mapping of risk factors improve targeting and efficiency of primary injury prevention. The aim of this project is therefore to facilitate injury prevention through improved data collection and analysis on impairing drugs and alcohol as a contributing and modifiable factor in injury morbidity and mortality. Study question: What is the toxicological profile among patients with suspected severe traumatic injury? Study design: a prospective population-based and national observational study will analyse toxicology from blood samples of all trauma admission during a 12 month study period.

The presence or development of AKI impacts on outcomes in patients presenting with acute conditions to the ED. As a result, treating physicians are often concerned with the risk of AKI and take such risk in consideration when making subsequent therapeutic and diagnostic decisions which may result in delaying or withholding therapeutic measures in order to prevent further kidney damage (i.e. avoid imaging studies with contrast media). If clinicians could be informed early that a patient is at minimal risk for AKI, they could deploy timely and optimal diagnostic and treatment procedures for the underlying disease of the patient without major concerns for causing or exacerbating kidney damage

Acute renal injury (AKI) is a common complication after cardiac surgery and is associated with worse outcomes. Hypotension is an important risk factor for the development of AKI after noncardiac surgery. However, the association between intraoperative hypotension and AKI after cardiac surgery has not been fully investigated. The purpose of this study is to analyze the association between intraoperative hypotension and acute kidney injury after off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery.

Acute kidney injury is one of major adverse postoperative complications. research about postoperative acute kidney injury conclude that low preoperative albumin and intraoperative hypotension is associated to postoperative acute kidney injury. However, due to ethic issue and nonlinear realtionship between these factors and postoperative acute kidney injury, the exact threshold of these two risk factors were not be able to identified. The research tried to locate the exact threshold with implementation of penalized splines by generalized additive model.

Objectives: To analyse if people with acquired brain injury in sub-acute situation, as well as their relatives, and/or partners, consider relevant the approach to sexuality during their Occupational Therapy intervention. Methodology: This study presents a qualitative design with a phenomenological approach. Twelve participants were interviewed: eight people with acquired brain injury, two relatives and two partners who agreed to participate. The information has been collected through interviews.

New biomarkers that predict the development of renal dysfunction in patients with aortic surgery are urgently needed. The investigators investigate whether urinary (TIMP-2)x(IGFBP7) predicts postoperative Acute Kidney Injury and/or need for Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) in patients after aortic surgery (including EVAR).

Objective: To determine the incidence and characteristics of injuries in elite badminton players over a competitive season. Design: 12-months prospective cohort study Setting: The French National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance (INSEP). Participants: Twenty international elite badminton players Independent variables: The type, the location, the occurrence of the injury (match or training), the footwork type, the type of shot and the perceived fatigue were collected. Main Outcome Measures: Injury incidence rates were calculated per 1000 hours of play (Hop).

This study aimed to detect tongue edema associated with the pressure exerted by a rigid direct laryngoscope by measuring the tongue area using USG in patients undergoing suspension laryngoscopy (SL) procedures.

Pneumothorax is a common life-threatening complication, frequently seen in patients who have been admitted to the emergency department and intensive care unit. This study aimed to describe the features of patients with pneumothorax due to blunt or penetrating trauma. A total of 615 patients admitted to the emergency department between January 2008 and December 2010 due to multi-trauma, and underwent both chest x-ray and computed chest tomography were included in the study. There were 157 patients with a diagnosis of pneumothorax. Fifty-five of them were excluded because of the eligible criteria. The final study population included 105 patients. The computed chest tomography reading was considered as the gold standard for the occult pneumothorax diagnosis. Data on patient characteristics, trauma types, accompanied traumas, etiology of the chest trauma, and chest x-ray, and computed chest tomography results were recorded.