Active clinical trials for "Sepsis"

Triple blind placebo-controlled study to determine if administering citrulline in patients with sepsis and severe sepsis slows progression to multiple organ failure and death, measuring biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction. Patients are divided into placebo or citrulline and followed up for 1 month.

The duration of antibiotic (ATB) therapy in late onset sepsis (LOS) of the neonate is currently not based on scientific data. The current PROABIS trial will study the use of a biological marker, procalcitonin (PCT), to guide ATB therapy duration in neonates with LOS. Our hypothesis is that the use of procalcitonin guidance can reduce of 30% the duration of ATB treatment without increasing recurrence of infection and mortality.

Investigation of effect of inhalation sedation by administration of Sevoflurane compared with Propofol on the moderate acute respiratory distress syndrome course in mechanically ventilated patients with sepsis.

Open-label phase 2a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) assessing the pharmacokinetics of two different doses of intravenous vitamin C given alongside vitamin B1 in adult medical patients with sepsis and hypotension.

The investigators propose a clinical study of irbersartan for the early treatment of severe sepsis patients with elevated predicted risk of death between. This study will evaluate whether early administration of the the angiotensin receptor blocker irbersartan provides significant reduction of 28 days mortality and multi organ failure incidence to patients with severe sepsis.

Purpose of this study is determine if skin application of chlorhexidine at birth would reduce infection in infants weighing <1500 g at birth.

This study is to see whether the intravenous administration of methylene blue improves the outcome in severe sepsis and septic shock.

ICU patients always experience all kinds of pain, discomfort and sleep disturbance,especially the sepsis patients. Appropriate sedation and analgesia is must,the newest sepsis guideline strongly recommend that mechanically ventilated sepsis patients need sedation therapy. Recent studies show than immune dysfunction dose have an important effect on the occurrence and development of sepsis. When the body suffer from the pathogenic microorganism attacking and sepsis, it activate the systemic inflammatory response (SIRS) and compensatory anti-inflammatory response syndrome (CARS). When it is out of balance between SIRS and CARS, the inflammatory response, immune paralysis or immune dysfunction occurs and the mixed anti-inflammatory response syndrome (MARS) exists, and then the multiple organ dysfunction. So, immune dysfunction is thought to be the key factors on the development of the sepsis. Some studies show that the sedation drug such as midazolam, propofol, dexmedetomidine could suppress the inflammatory response effectively and then modulate the immune function. Several recent studies show that midazolam has the immunoregulation effect and trend of suppress the inflammatory response, but the result is controversy, the possibly reason is the different immune status. Now there is the guideline about the different immune status: the normal immune function means that the value of mHLA-DR is more than 15000 monoclonal antibody; moderate-sever immune suppression means that the value of mHLA-DR is in the range of 5000 and 15000 monoclonal antibody; the immune paralysis means that the value of mHLA-DR is less than 5000 monoclonal antibody. The purpose of the study is to explore the effect of midazolam to inflammatory response and organ function at mechanically ventilated sepsis patients who have different immune status.

The purpose of this study is to asses the recovery of organ failure between two resuscitation protocols in severe sepsis: standard, pressure guided therapy versus a microcirculation guided therapy

The ARISE RCT is a multi-centre, randomised, controlled trial of EGDT compared to standard care in patients with severe sepsis presenting to the ED. The study will be conducted in multiple sites with 1600 patients enrolled into the study. Hypothesis to be tested: EGDT, compared to standard Australasian resuscitation practice, reduces 90-day all-cause mortality in patients presenting to the ED with severe sepsis.