Active clinical trials for "Toxemia"

The purpose of this study is to investigate the safety and tolerability of AP in sepsis patients with renal failure and to investigate the effect of AP on inflammatory and clinical parameters in sepsis patients with renal failure.

The focus of this study will be to conduct a prospective, randomized controlled trial (RCT) at Cape Regional Medical Center (CRMC), Oroville Hospital (OH), and UCSF Medical Center (UCSF) in which a fluid treatment-specific algorithm will be applied to EHR data for the detection of severe sepsis. For patients determined to have a high risk of severe sepsis, the algorithm will generate automated voice, telephone notification to nursing staff at CRMC, OH, and UCSF. The algorithm's performance will be measured by analysis of the primary endpoint, reductions in in-hospital mortality.

Sepsis is a life-threatening dysregulated immune response to infection associated with multi-organ failure and a high mortality rate.While researchers have focused mainly on acute sepsis, post-sepsis care of survivors has long been neglected despite the observation that many sepsis survivors suffer from debilitating post-sepsis syndrome. This syndrome is characterized by frequent hospital readmissions and increased mortality due to persistent immune dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, and cognitive impairment, causing poor quality of life and a substantial burden on the healthcare system. Disconcertingly, the number of sepsis survivors at risk for hospital readmission continues to rise.7 Of the post-sepsis symptoms, post-sepsis immunosuppression is perhaps the most clinically important. While sepsis presents as an initial phase of hyperinflammation (a "cytokine storm"), it is followed by an immunosuppressive phase that is now understood to last weeks to months and predisposes survivors to lethal secondary infections and sepsis recurrence. A third of deaths eight years post-sepsis are caused by recurrent sepsis.We hypothesize that changes in the transcriptome and DNA methylome in immune cells of survivors might be the underlying driver for prolonged immunosuppression, and may also be correlated with long-term morbidity and mortality post-sepsis, as well as other symptoms of post-sepsis syndrome including PTSD and cardiovascular disease.

The popuse of this study is to assess the inflammatory immunophenotypes of sepsis patients are significantly correlated with prognosis, which may provide theoretical basis for precise immune regulation of sepsis.

The heart, one of the most important organs for oxygen supply and consumption, is frequently involved in sepsis, i.e. septic cardiomyopathy, also known as septic myocardial suppression. The occurrence of septic myocardial suppression increases mortality in septic patients. Recent studies have found that left ventricular hyperdynamic state (EF > 70%) is associated with intra-ICU mortality in septic patients, possibly because it reflects unresolved vascular paralysis from sepsis . For septic myocardial suppression, there is still a lack of uniform criteria for diagnosis, but it is well established that the cardiac ultrasound phenotype of septic myocardial suppression can be left ventricular systolic insufficiency (LVSD), left ventricular diastolic insufficiency (LVDD), right ventricular insufficiency (RVD), diffuse ventricular insufficiency, and mixed ventricular insufficiency. According to incomplete statistics, the prevalence of LVSD ranges from 12 to 60%, the prevalence of LVDD is higher, 20% to 79%, and the prevalence of RVD varies from 30% to 55%. However, based on the current understanding of septic myocardial suppression, the relationship between each staging and its prognosis is unclear, and echocardiography can rapidly identify septic myocardial suppression and guide the classification of septic myocardial suppression to further optimize the diagnosis and treatment process of sepsis, especially to avoid over-resuscitation during fluid resuscitation and perform reverse resuscitation in a timely manner to improve patient prognosis and reduce hospitalization time. The aim of this study is to classify and evaluate the prognosis of patients with different septic cardiac ultrasound phenotypes in multiple centers across China by measuring the right and left heart systolic and diastolic indices by echocardiography, recording the baseline conditions and clinical indices of patients, and combining them with the prognosis.

This study is designed to improve the outcomes for patients suffering from severe sepsis and septic shock (SS/SS) by decreasing the time from first medical contact to antibiotic administration. This is a stepwise study that aims to demonstrate the ability of paramedics to accurately obtain blood cultures prior to hospital arrival, administer a broad spectrum antibiotic and initiate IV fluid resuscitation in patients meeting predefined criteria for SS/SS.

Neonatal septicemia remains one of the main causes of neonatal morbidity and mortality . Sepsis which is caused by a dysregulated host response to an infectious trigger leading to a life threatening organ dysfunction was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 2017 as a global health priority that requires resolution for its prevention , dignosis , and management (Monneret et al., 2019). Despite the advances in perinatal and neonatal sepsis remains high and the outcome is still sever (Chirio et al.,2011) . HLA-DR is on the surface of monocyte \ macrophages , dendritic cells, and B cells and plays a crucial role in adaptive immune response , More than 30 years ago , researches proved an association between the low level of HLA-DR and the development of sepsis (Cheadle at al .,1991) . A decreased expression of mHLA-DR molecules has been associated with immunoparalysis , which is an inflammatory immune responce that occurs in sepsis .(Pradhan et al.,2016).

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate regional ventilation distribution in patients admitted to the intensive care unit after emergent laparotomy due to abdominal sepsis. The main question it aims to answer is: • evaluate if patients admitted after an open abdomen strategy have a different regional ventilation distribution compared to patients in which abdomen is closed at the end of the procedure Participants will undergo non-invasive monitoring (esophageal pressure and electrical impedance tomography) and an blood gas analysis samples. Researchers will compare open abdomen group and closed abdomen group to see if the ventilation distribution pattern is different.

This study will follow patients admitted to the PICU with sepsis, NICU with sepsis or after abdominal surgery, or CICU who are identified as being at risk for developing acute kidney injury. The investigators will use risk-stratification, biomarker testing, and a functional assessment to predict children and neonates who will become fluid overloaded and develop severe acute kidney injury.

Aim of the study is to determine the diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound and to determine its role in sepsis management .