Active clinical trials for "Shock"

The study will evaluate the vasopressor requirement, hemodynamic response and measures of tissue perfusion in patients with septic shock receiving an infusion of drotrecogin alfa (activated) compared to patients not receiving drotrecogin alfa (activated).

Sepsis is defined by the occurrence of critical organ dysfunction in the context of infection. Unfortunately, its incidence appears to be rising, and the mortality of septic shock remains extraordinary high (> 60%). Death in sepsis arises from shock and multi organ dysfunction that are - at least in part - triggered by an inadequate response of the host's immune system to the infection. Given the injurious role of 1) this overwhelming immune response and 2) the consumption of protective plasmatic factors (e.g. vWF cleaving proteases, hemostatic factors etc.) while the disease is progressing the investigators hypothesize that early therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) in the most severely ill individuals might improve hemodynamics, oxygenation and ultimately survival. This therapeutic strategy combines 2 major aspects in 1 procedure: 1. removal of harmful circulating molecules and 2. replacement of protective plasma proteins. The investigators designed the EXCHANGE trial to analyze in a randomized fashion the benefit of TPE as an add-on treatment to state of the art standard sepsis care. Only patients with early septic shock (< 24 hrs) and high catecholamine doses (norepinephrine > 0.4 ug/kg body weight/min) will be included. Those in the treatment group will receive 1 TPE within 2 hours following randomization. The primary outcome is norepinephrine dose 6 hrs after randomization. The recruitment period is 2 years and will be performed at the Hannover medical School University hospital in Germany. Secondary endpoints (including organ dysfunction as well as biochemical markers of inflammation and coagulation) will be assessed on day 1-8 and day 28 after TPE. The investigators hope to demonstrate a potential benefit of an additive treatment approach to improve the outcome of patients suffering from septic shock.

Prospective, randomized, single-center, controlled, open-label Pilot-study to investigate whether induction of mild hypothermia in addition to primary percutaneous coronary intervention and optimal medical therapy in myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock improves cardiac power index after 24 h.

This is a Phase 3, double-blind, randomized study of LJPC-501 (angiotensin II) in adult patients diagnosed with catecholamine-resistant hypotension (CRH) conducted in multiple centers globally.

Haemodynamic optimization is of paramount importance in septic shock, but is really consensual and standardized during the first 6 hours of treatment. Haemodynamic treatment including fluid loading management, vasoactive treatment and oxygen transport optimization is mainly based on expert recommendations or non-randomized trials. Recently, preload dependence indexes such as pulse pressure variation have been shown to be more accurate to predict fluid responsiveness than static indexes such as filling pressures. However, whether using preload dependence indexes changes septic shock prognostic remains to date unknown. The aim of this non-blinded randomized controlled trial is to assess whether haemodynamic optimization using preload dependence indexes and pulmonary thermodilution 1. reduces septic shock duration assessed by administration duration of vasoactive treatment (primary end point), 2. reduces regional hypoperfusion assessed by arterial lactate, 3. reduces lung hydrostatic oedema linked to excessive fluid loading (assessed by PaO2/FIO2 ratio and extravascular lung water). 4. reduces organ dysfunction (assessed by the SOFA score), ICU stay and 7 and 28 day mortality Control group is managed with an algorithm using filling pressures to drive haemodynamic treatment.

Based on encouraging results from animal studies, the investigators hypothesize that early administration of IV Premarin® in patients with hemorrhagic shock will safely reduce secondary injury, and improve survival.

The weaning rate of vasopressors drugs is usually chosen empirically by the clinician in critically patients. The investigators applied fuzzy logic principles to modify intravenous norepinephrine infusion rates during norepinephrine infusion in septic patients in order to reduce the duration of shock. The investigators goal was to reduce the duration of poorly controlled hemodynamic status.

The major goal of this project is to determine whether the use of thiamine in patients with septic shock will result in attenuation of lactic acidosis and a more rapid reversal of shock.

The purpose of this study was to compare ACCM/PALS guidelines performed with and without central venous oxygen saturation monitoring on the morbidity and mortality rate of children with severe sepsis and septic shock.

Objective: To determine whether the early administration of albumin as an expander and antioxidant would improve survival on the 28th day for septic shock patients. Design: Prospective, multicenter, randomized, controlled versus saline, stratified on nosocomial infection and center. Setting: 27 Intensive Care Units (ICU) in France Coordinator: Pr J.P. Mira and Dr J. Charpentier - Cochin Hospital- Paris Patients: 800 patients could be included during the first 6 hours of their septic shock.