Active clinical trials for "Wounds and Injuries"

Trauma is a major medical and public health problem facing all countries in the world today. Trauma is the leading cause of death worldwide for people under 45 years of age, and more than 5 million people die each year from severe trauma. According to the "China Injury Prevention Report" issued by the Ministry of Health in August 2007, about 200 million injuries occur annually in China, with 700,000 to 750,000 deaths, accounting for about 9% of the total number of deaths. Serious trauma has the characteristics of high mortality and disability rate, and often affects the main groups of young and middle-aged people of social labor force. It has a tremendous impact on social and economic development, and has brought a heavy burden to society and families. The treatment of severe trauma is extremely important, and its treatment process needs a standardized model. In many links of trauma treatment, accurate assessment of injury is the precondition of classification and grading of diagnosis and treatment, and also provides a good basis for the follow-up standardized treatment of patients. The accuracy and consistency of injury assessment are also the reflection of diagnosis and treatment ability. ISS score is an evaluation method for severe trauma and multiple trauma patients. It has been used by emergency personnel for a long time. It also plays a very good auxiliary role in the evaluation and treatment of patients'injuries. However, there are still many problems in the clinical use of ISS scores: 1. Some hospitals do not attach importance to the application of ISS scores, and do not fully understand the scoring method; 2. Low frequency of use, inaccurate grasp of the method; 3. Three-level physicians have different valuations of ISS scores for the same kind of trauma; 4. Use AIS scoring table to calculate. It takes a long time to calculate the ISS score, which affects the normal first aid efficiency. To this end, our research team designed a questionnaire on the use of ISS score. The main purpose of the questionnaire is to assess and register the severity of injury in multiple trauma patients to understand the current use and proficiency of ISS score system by Chinese trauma surgeons, the difference of ISS score between three-level doctors and the same patient, and ISS score. The consistency between the software and AIS scoring table and the scoring time of the two methods are also discussed. This study hopes that through this survey, we can understand the current situation of the application of the scoring system in Chinese hospitals, in order to promote the standardization of severe trauma assessment and promote the use of the evaluation system in hospitals throughout the country, so as to provide optimized trauma treatment process for trauma patients.

The study will enable the clinical applicability of the multiple-spectral-sonography for detection of severe brain injury in ICU patients. For this, the ACG diagnostic system (Sonovum AG, Leipzig, Germany) should be used as additional diagnostic tool in prospective single-center study.

Trauma is a leading cause of death among people younger than 44 years. Five million people worldwide die from trauma annually. Uncontrolled haemorrhage causing traumatic-haemorrhagic shock (THS) is the leading cause of potentially preventable deaths from severe trauma. Uncorrected hypervolaemia and prolonged shock cause severe tissue hypoperfusion, vital organ ischemia and subsequently acidosis. In up to one third of trauma patients, laboratory findings suggest traumatic induced coagulopathy, which is further triggered by loss or dilution of coagulation factors. These patients have a significantly increased morbidity and mortality compared to patients with similar injury patterns without coagulopathy. Minimizing the time to surgical control of haemorrhage is key in order to improve outcome. However, immediate and goal directed volume and coagulation resuscitation including use of blood transfusion is crucial to enable survival until definitive hospital care. The primary objective of this study will be to evaluate feasibility of prehospital administration of 1 unit of human plasma and 1 unit of red blood cells, and explore association of early prehospital transfusion with early outcomes in patients presenting with THS, severe bleeding or peri-arrest state who are matching indication criteria and are transported by Helicopter Emergency Medical Service. Results of clinical examinations and laboratory variables in a group of patients receiving prehospital transfusion will be compared to matched population of patients treated before blood has been available on board. Secondary aim of the study is to detect any potential logistical and/or organisational adverse effects, incl. cost-effectiveness, in a regional trauma system with prehospital times (time of injury to trauma centre) ranging from 45 to 75 minutes.

This study aims to determine whether combination with regulatory T cell (Treg) levels and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) are predictive of the severity of reperfusion injury following myocardial infarction and the prognosis in STEMI patients receiving primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI).

Identification of risk factors of acute kidney injury (AKI). It is hypothesized that there might be a correlation between brain oximetry, tissue saturation of thenar muscle and marker of AKI in blood - neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) - measured in blood samples during the first post-op day.

Centralisation of neonatal intensive care has led to an increase in postnatal inter-hospital transfers within the first 72 hours of life. Studies have shown transported preterm infants have an increased risk of intraventricular haemorrhage compared to inborns. The cause is likely multi-factorial, however, during the transportation process infants are exposed to noxious stimuli (excessive noise, vibration and temperature fluctuations), which may result in microscopic brain injury. However, there is a paucity of evidence to evaluate the effect of noise and vibration exposure during transportation. In this study the investigators aim to quantify the level of vibration and noise as experienced by a preterm infant during inter-hospital transportation in ground ambulance in the United Kingdom Secondary aims of the study are to: i) measure the physiological and biochemical changes that occur as a result of ambulance transportation (ii) quantify microscopic brain injury through measurement of urinary S100B and other biomarkers (iii) evaluate the development of intraventricular haemorrhage on cranial ultrasound iv) monitor vibration and sound exposure, using a prototype measuring system, during neonatal transport using both a manikin and a small cohort of neonatal patients. v) evaluate vibration and sound exposure levels using an updated transportation system modified to reduce effects.

The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence, incidence and injury load suffered in male amateur rugby players from Argentina during a competitive season in 2019.

Literature is contradictory about the impact of mediolateral episiotomy during operative vaginal delivery in obstetric anal sphincter injuries prevention explaining the absence of international guidelines. The investigators consider that a randomized trials does not appears feasible for both ethical and practical reason and so we suggest a large national observational study. The investigators will include all nulliparous women that underwent an operative vaginal delivery within the 72h following the delivery at more than 34 weeks of amenorrhea. The investigators will collect data about the history of pregnancy, the course of labor, the mode of delivery, maternal immediate and one-year morbidity, neonatal immediate morbidity. The investigators expect a one-year study in 129 recruiting center with 15000 included women. The primary objective is to assess the protective effect of mediolateral episiotomy against obstetric anal sphincter injury during instrumental delivery in nulliparous women according to the type of instrument used. The secondary endpoints are to investigate the effect of mediolateral episiotomy on one-year maternal morbidity, immediate maternal morbidity. The investigators also aim to develop a clinical score to assess the absolute risk of obstetric anal sphincter injury during instrumental delivery. Finally, the investigators will investigate the impact of fetal presentation ultrasound assessment immediately before instrumental delivery on the mode of delivery.

In this observational case series the investigators would like to investigate wether or not the strenuous activity exerted on over head athletic athletes (ie. javelin throwers, discus throwers) may incite injury on their shoulders. The investigators understood that these athletes had to perform repeated throwing motions and yet reports on their effects are very limited. This condition in the long run may contribute to injury and affecting performance of the athletes. The investigators found that these relationships have not been looked at closely by others and largely overshadowed by athletes in other fields; such injury patterns had been described in details in baseball pitchers but not in other athletes.

The dehiscence distal to the second molar after lower third molar extraction is very common because the access flap for surgical extraction cannot be repositioned on a portion of healthy bone to guarantee suture support. The healing process is therefore delayed and the possible accumulation of food and debris is often responsible for bad smell and pain with the consequent occurrence of an overlapping infection. The main aim of the study is to evaluate whether healing is significantly different using two different flaps for surgical access. Clinical assessment and a quality of life questionnaire are used for the evaluation.