Active clinical trials for "Shock, Septic"

This phase II trial studies how well early metabolic resuscitation therapy works in reducing multi-organ dysfunction in patients with septic shock. Early metabolic resuscitation is made of large doses of glucose, protein, and essential metabolic molecules that may help lower the effects of septic shock on the body. Giving patients early metabolic resuscitation in combination with standard of care may work better in reducing multi-organ dysfunction syndrome in patients with septic shock compared to standard of care alone.

Sepsis, a systemic host response to the invasion of a pathogenic microorganism, may progress to severe sepsis, wherein the patient experiences acute dysfunction in at least one organ system, and further develop into septic shock if the patient cannot regain adequate systemic blood pressure and perfusion after adequate and appropriate fluid resuscitation. Further prospective study of the potential mortality benefit with combination norepinephrine and vasopressin in critically ill patients with septic shock needs to be performed. Our research will resolve this essential question and improve the scientific knowledge surrounding vasoactive medications in patients with septic shock.

To determine if intravenous thiamine would decrease the time to reversal of shock in patients with septic shock.

This study is a prospective, stepped-wedge implementation trial to test the effects of implementing a Clinical Decision Support (CDS) tool for prediction of septic shock in four Emergency Departments within a pediatric healthcare network. The primary outcome will be the proportion of sepsis patients who receive guideline-concordant septic shock care after implementation of the CDS, and the secondary outcome will be time-to-antibiotic after sepsis recognition.

Vasopressin is a vasopressor used in patients with septic shock. However, its systemic hemodynamic effects and its microcirculation effects are not completely known and understood. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of exogenous vasopressin on sublingual microcirculation using the sidestream dark field technique and to correlate it with its systemic effects. To this prospective interventional study, patients with septic shock were included during the first 48 hours of use of catecholamine vasopressors, admitted to the intensive care unit of a university hospital. Vasopressin was administered at 0.04 U / min for one hour. Systemic hemodynamic measurements were obtained immediately before and 1 hour after vasopressin. In addition, images of sublingual microcirculation were collected through sidestream dark field technology. Further analysis with specific software was done after.

This study will be performed to determine whether selenium replacement reduces 28-day mortality of severe sepsis and septic shock patients, and to investigate whether selenium replacement contributes differently to the mortality reduction of the patients according to their initial serum selenium level.

Pharmacology of Exenatide in Pediatric Sepsis, PEPS is a phase 1-2 research study that will examine drug safety, drug metabolism, drug action and preliminary drug clinical effects of four does of exenatide injected every 12 hours to children with shock from infection (septic shock). The investigators hypothesize that exenatide can be safely dosed to children with sepsis to achieve blood levels of drug similar to that achieved in teenagers with type 2 diabetes. The investigators further hypothesize that injection of exenatide to children with septic shock will normalize blood glucose levels and decrease levels of inflammation proteins in the blood during the early course of sepsis.

The purpose of this study is to assess the concordance of therapeutic changes proposed after an early hemodynamic evaluation (hemodynamic profile) in septic shock patients using jointly the transpulmonary thermodilution technique and transesophageal echocardiography (TEE).

Intravenous fluids are one of the keystones in the initial management of patients with septic shock, but they inevitably lead to a fluid overload, which is associated with poor outcome. So far no studies have evaluated the interest of a restrictive strategy for managing fluid intake targeting all non-resuscitative fluids (fluids for maintenance and drug dilution as well as nutrition) and especially the impact of this restrictive strategy on fluid overload. The hypothesis of this research is that an optimised restrictive strategy targeting all non-resuscitative fluids in patients hospitalised in the intensive care unit for septic shock, will have an impact on fluid balance in these patients.

The aim of this study is to compare the effect of EMS and conventional physical therapy on strength and muscle mass and development in adult patients with severe sepsis and septic shock.