Active clinical trials for "Wounds and Injuries"

The epidemiological study of tumor complicated with kidney disease can clarify the prevalence and risk factors of renal injury when malignant tumor is diagnosed, and understand the impact of malignant tumor complicated with renal injury on survival time. This study will bring enlightenment to clinicians, discover high-risk factors in time, and try to avoid renal damage factors in diagnosis and treatment. Early diagnosis and early treatment can partially terminate the progress of renal injury, avoid the suspension of treatment due to renal reasons, and avoid the occurrence of end-stage renal failure (ESRD).

This is a double blind placebo-controlled RCT comparing the speed of healing of simple traumatic wounds with Aloe Vera gel compared to both control (Ultrasound gel) and standard care.

The objective of this work is to compare standard intubation with video laryngoscope (Glide scope Ranger ) in French pre hospital multicentric study.

Wound complications after Cesarean section (C-section) are common in obese women. Approximately 25% of obese women having a C-section will have a wound complication. This research study is designed to assess whether applying a source of vacuum (suction) to the wound can reduce the risk of wound complications. The investigators plan to enroll 220 women into the study. Women will be randomly selected to receive standard stitching and stapling of the incision (cut on the abdomen) or closure with stitches, staples and wound suction. Subjects will be seen for follow-up visits in 7-14 days and again at 4-6 weeks after surgery. The number of wound complications in each group will be compared. If the wound suction technique is successful in preventing wound complications, this may substantially reduce pain and suffering in a large number of women undergoing C-section for delivery.

This trial is conducted in the United States of America (USA). The purpose of this study is to evaluate the treatment of Recombinant Faction VIIa in Patients with Severe Bleeding Due to Trauma Please note that this trial and trial F7TRAUMA-1711 (NCT00184548) have been merged.

Purpose: To examine the effects of straining techniques on the duration of labor, perineal trauma status and newborn apgar score. Method: This study is a randomized controlled trial. The straining techniques were explained to the pregnant women who gave written consent to participate in the study and were randomly assigned to groups in the latent phase (natural, spontaneous, Valsalva), and the techniques were applied in the second phase of labor.

This study has two central research questions: 1) Is implementing a family mindfulness-based intervention with war-affected immigrant families through community based participatory research methods feasible?; and 2) Does the intervention demonstrate preliminary improvements in the social and behavioral health of war-affected caregivers and youth by addressing patterns of behavior that potentiate intergenerational trauma? The objective in the proposed study is to use Community Based Participatory Research strategies to test the feasibility and acceptability of a mindfulness-based intervention for Karen refugee families living post-resettlement in the United States. A key focus in this phase of the pilot will be intervention adaptation and establishing fidelity monitoring and quality improvement procedures through which the PI and community health worker interventionists are trained and evaluated in the delivery of the intervention.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and professional societies recommend restricted episiotomy instead of routine episiotomy. However, since the 1990s, there has been evidence of the risks of the procedure, and although routine use has no benefit, it is still widely used. In this study, investigators aimed to determine the effect of episiotomy on the wound healing process and pain perception by providing episiotomy wound healing and genital hygiene training with training material created to raise awareness about wound care after episiotomy and to eliminate factors that delay the healing of episiotomy wound.

Patients with abnormal kidney function are common in primary care, particularly in people with other long standing illnesses. Some of these patients have long standing weakness of their kidneys, others develop new kidney weakness alongside other new illnesses. Patients with weak kidneys are more likely to be admitted to hospital, spend longer in hospital or die than those with normal kidneys. Although these events are common, how kidney weakness develops in the community is not well understood and awareness is poor. It is known that appropriate attention to a patient's medical care at times of high risk may reduce the onset of new kidney weakness. We have developed a new education package for primary healthcare professionals and patients. This will teach them about risks of new kidney weakness in their patients, give advice about how to combat them, and help prevent it occurring. This project will also use a new software tool - IMPAKT EVOLVE-AKI - to extract information from primary care systems and combine this with hospital data to identify developing kidney weakness much more accurately primary care . Both these elements of the study have already been tested in primary care and we are confident that they work well. Patients and the public have been involved in the development of these tools and will also be closely involved in their implementation. We now intend to implement the education more widely in primary care. We will then test how effectively the education has been implemented and whether it has a significant effect on the number of episodes of new kidney weakness developing in primary care. We calculate that we will need to provide this education to 36 practices to be able to determine accurately whether the programme significantly reduces new kidney weakness. Advice we have received from colleagues in primary care indicates that they are very interested in this education programme, and we believe that that a positive result from this study will lead to rapid and wide implementation of this combined programme of education and data analysis to the benefit of patients across the UK. This study fits well with a national programme of work in this area, and this combination will help with wider adoption of the study findings when the results are available.

Difficulty to sustain attention over a prolonged period of time is one of the core difficulties experienced by people who have undergone traumatic brain injury. Rehabilitation of attention is often based on compensatory strategies, because of the limited impact of cognitive training on improving attentional capacity after brain injury. New therapeutic approaches to explore the plastic recovery of the brain after injury, and consequent performance improvement, are warranted. Neurofeedback (NFB) allows the self-regulation of brain activity using visual feedback. Very recently, it has been demonstrated that NFB training targeted at reducing alpha power (alpha desynchronization NFB), can induce initial plastic changes in brain networks associated with attention. It has been proposed that NFB can improve cognitive performance by tuning oscillatory activity of the brain towards a more healthy balance between neural network flexibility and stability. It is speculated that the use of alpha desynchronization NFB training, with people who present with brain injury, can enhance sustained attention in as much as the training promotes neural variability during resting state (i.e. more flexible network configuration) and neural stability during a sustained attention task (i.e. more stable network configuration). However, before assessing the effectiveness of the intervention, it is necessary to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability thereof. This study will recruit 14 participants and randomly assign them to two groups: a NFB group and a video games control group. Long-term changes will be evaluated at two time points for both groups: baseline and post-intervention. The NFB group will have a follow-up session one week after the intervention, to evaluate whether there are long lasting changes after NFB training. In addition, short-term changes of NFB will be evaluated for the experimental group, contrasting EEG activity immediately before and after the last NFB session.