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Rationale : ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) has been extensively studied in adults, however, few data exist regarding VAP in the paediatric intensive care population. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) definition for VAP is regularly updated trying to homogenised practice, and the last version for paediatrics has been published in 2015. According to the latest CDC definition, the investigators aim to study incidence of VAP in different paediatric intensive care units (PICUs), diagnostic methods of identifying VAP, microbiology of VAP, and utilisation of empirical antimicrobial therapy. Methods and population : a prospective multicentre observational study will be conducted in European PICUs for one year. All patients admitted to PICU aged more than 28 days and < 18 years, mechanically ventilated either by endotracheal or tracheostomy tube are included. Clinical data, ventilation settings, and risk factors for VAP are inserted daily in an electronic database on the internet. The investigators are going to identify patients, who presented one or more episodes of VAP during PICUs stay, analysing onset circumstances, diagnostic methods, bacteria pathogens identified, and antibiotic treatment. VAP incidence will be reported as number of events per 1,000 ventilator-days. Risk factors associated to VAP will be identified by univariate and multivariate analysis. Results and perspective : the investigators aim to define for the first time the incidence of VAP among European PICUs with a prospective and multicentre study. The identification of risk factors, diagnostic methods, epidemiology, treatment strategies will define the basis to start prevention manoeuvres and improve the clinical strategies for VAP in paediatric intensive care population.

Cancer patients with Central Venous Catheter (CVC) Associated Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) will be treated with Low Molecular Weight Heparin (LMWH) and apixaban. Study duration is 12 weeks.

The PREPPeD study proposes that predelivery placenta-derived maternal circulating biomarkers reflect placental health, capacity and ageing, and can help predict onset and complications of delivery both in complicated pregnancies as well as in clinically uncomplicated term/post-term pregnancies.

Inhalation pneumonia (PI) is common in clinical practice but is rarely studied. For example, there are no data on the incidence of pneumonia after inhalation and risk factors or protective factors to develop one since it is known that anyone who inhaled does not necessarily develop an IP. There is no data on the benefit of treating inhalation by antibiotic therapy pre-emptively although this practice is common. In this context, this observational study wishes to take stock of the situation on the subject in order to determine what actions to implement to prevent IP.

To look for the replication of HHV6 by PCR in the skin, in these patients with haemopathies presenting an exanthema. This will make it possible to evaluate the prevalence of the positivity of this PCR in the skin. Then the investigator can investigate whether there is an association between the positivity of HHV6 PCR in the blood and / or skin and the viral etiology of the exanthema. If this association exists, it will make it possible to improve the diagnosis in the context of the exanthema and thus to improve the therapeutic management of these patients.

The purpose of the present study is to advance in the knowledge of quality of life in patients with ILD by translating a ILD quality of life questionnaire. There are no specific tools validated in Spanish to evaluate the quality of life in patients with ILD, although these measures are useful for an comprensive evaluation of these patients. Patients with ILD have a significant impact on their health. If we improve our Knowledge of the different domains affected by the disease, and not only in the pathophysiological ones, we will be able to develop tools to improve their management.

This prospective observational study is designed to investigate the relationship between brain temperature, axillary temperature, rectal temperature, and bladder temperature of postoperative patients with brain trauma, and the relationship between brain temperature and prognosis. This study is conducted based on the following important assumptions. First, brain temperature of postoperative patients with brain trauma should be higher than the axillary temperature, rectal temperature and bladder temperature. Second, the consistency of brain temperature and bladder temperature is better than the consistency of brain temperature and axillary temperature, as well as that of brain temperature and rectal temperature. Third, brain temperature can help clinicians to predict the prognosis of patients with brain trauma. Therefore, brain temperature monitoring is significant in postoperative intensive care and treatment of patients with brain trauma.

Via a prospective non-interventional study clinical outcome of patients with - and without - history of pre-existing invasive aspergillosis undergoing allo-HSCT will be assessed, in terms of non-relapse mortality overall mortality and fungal infectious morbidity. Aim. Assessment of 1-year outcome of patients undergoing allo-HSCT with history of pre-existing IA vs. no pre-existing IA. Hypothesis. NRM in patients with pre-existing IA is not higher (by a specified margin of 10%) than patients without pre-existing IA. Study population. First allo-HSCT in patients with acute leukaemia and MDS given stem cell grafts. Cohort 1: History of probable or proven invasive aspergillosis Cohort 2: No History of probable or proven invasive aspergillosis: this cohort includes also the patient with a history of possible mycosis not documented microbiologically.

There are lack of endoscopic criteria for diagnosing Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection by conventional white light imaging (WLI). Linked color imaging (LCI) is a newly developed endoscopy technique, which can diagnose mucosal lesions and H. pylori infection by enhancing color contrast of the mucosa. The aim of the study is to investigate the ability of LCI for diagnosing H. pylori infection compared with WLI.

The program is to improve STEMI medical care quality in China. With the documents issued by National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China, the program was initialed in at least 200 primary PCI capable hospitals together with hundreds of adjacent non-primary PCI capable hospitals in 15 provinces. STEMI patients with symptom onset within 30 days will be enrolled in 3 periods. In each period with 6-month interval, 30 patients will be enrolled consecutively from each PCI-capable center initially and from non-primary PCI capable hospitals later, thus at least 18,000 STEMI patients from primary PCI capable hospitals will be enrolled and all of them will be followed up for 1 year. Key performance indicators (KPIs) in STEMI care will be collected using both national PCI online registry and a program STEMI online registry database for the purpose of improvement of medical care. Hospital KPIs rank report and problem-based resolution will be feedback to each hospital after data analysis in each period. Comparison of every two cross-sectional data (self) and within one cross-sectional (inter-hospital) data will be used to evaluate the improvement of medical quality.