Active clinical trials for "Wounds and Injuries"

This study is a prospective national survey of body mass index, and includes all patients with a new spinal cord injury hospitalized at Clinic for Spinal Cord Injuries, Rigshospitalet and Spinal Cord Injury Center of Western Denmark during a period of 9 months. Informed consent is retrieved from all participants.

mTBI is widely recognized as a major public health concern in the United States and worldwide. mTBI diagnosis remains a clinical challenge as no single test can diagnose every concussion. Recent advances in EEG evoked response potential analysis have led to a novel technique for assessing brain network activation (BNA) patterns. This study purpose is to study this BNA technology in individuals who have sustained a concussion.

Few studies indicate that sprint performance may be impaired in football players with a previous hamstring strain injury. This exploratory cross-sectional study aim to compare sprint performance between football players with and without a previous hamstring strain injury. The findings may elucidate potential indications of insufficient rehabilitation following a hamstring strain injury. Sprint performance data will be collected using the MySprint Iphone Application. Due to pragmatic reasons and the exploratory nature of this study the aim is to include players on a team level. Based on the prevalence of hamstring strain injuries the expected number of cases to be included are 10-20 football players with a previous hamstring strain injury, and a corresponding 80-90 number of healthy controls. No outcomes will be weighted (flat outcome structure).

Coagulation factor XIII (FXIII), a plasma transglutaminase, is known as the final enzyme of the coagulation cascade, responsible for a cross-linking of fibrin to strengthen blood clot. It also minimizes fibrin degradation by its cross-linking it with alfa2-antiplasmin molecules. It has been found that similar to plasma fibrinogen level, FXIII activity can be reduced in the early phase of severe trauma. Therefore, its immediate substitution is of potential therapeutic interest in trauma-induced coagulopathy. However, unlike plasma fibrinogen level evaluation, measurement of the FXIII activity is not routinely available. Therefore, targeted substitution of FXIII is practically impossible. The plasma fibrinogen level is routinely measured in severe trauma patients. Based on pathophysiologic assumptions and a limited number of published data we hypothesize that the FXIII activity correlates with fibrinogen level. In such case, indirect FXIII activity prediction by fibrinogen level measurement would be a convenient approach to enable FXIII targeted substitution. Therefore we decided to perform a prospective observational clinical trial to determine whether the low plasma fibrinogen level in severe trauma correlates with decreased FXIII activity.

The battle of Mosul was characterized by the use of improvised explosive devices, human shields and suicide bombers in an urban setting. It is unclear whether this type of warfare cause more extensive abdominal injuries to civilians than combatants. All patients admitted with penetrating abdominal injury subjected to an exploratory laparotomy at Emergency Hospital, Erbil, between October 17, 2016 and July 16, 2017 will be included. Differences in demographics, injury mechanism, time since injury, clinical status on arrival, intraoperative findings, postoperative complications and outcome will be studied.

The investigators seek to determine whether a reduced preoperative renal functional reserve predicts postoperative acute kidney injury in patients with normal estimated glomerular filtration rates undergoing elective cardiac surgery.

One hundred patients, aged from 41 to 78 years, underwent open heart surgery in the years 1998-1999 and were studied by using the Cellstick device for harvesting wound inflammatory cells during the first 24 hours after surgery. The results of the differential count were computerized by using artificial neural network for obtaining wound inflammatory cell node (WICN). The patients were followed up for sixteen years or to the death. WICN values were compared with the patients´ survival.

Comparison in abdominal wound healing after contaminated or dirty surgery with incisional negative pressure wound therapy versus standard dressing.

The purpose of the study is to explore the microbiology in war-associated wounds of hospitalized patients from the Syrian armed conflict. Cultures collected from acute wounds with clinical signs of infection will be analyzed.

In this study, syndesmosis injuries were detected in 143 of the patients who came to Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine, Orthopedics and Traumatology clinic from October 2017 to October 2021 with ankle fractures. 33 of these patients couldn't followed for various reasons. Screw or suture buttone method was applied on 110 patients. And patients were examined with lots of data to compare their results. A retrospective study was conducted.