Bacterial Infections Clinical Trials

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Healthrelated Quality of Life and Experiences of a Heart Rehabilitation Programme After Care for Infective Endocarditis.

<p>Can the health of patients with Infective endocarditis (IE) be improved by participation in the physical exercise training within cardiac rehabilitation program?</p><p>Participants will:</p><ul><li>Be physically evaluated by a physiotherapist before and after the progam of physical exercise training within cardiac rehabilitation.</li><li>Do individual exercises in a group led by a physiotherapist 2 …

Healthrelated Quality of Life and Experiences of a Heart Rehabilitation Programme After Care for Infective Endocarditis.

<p>Can the health of patients with Infective endocarditis (IE) be improved by participation in the physical exercise training within cardiac rehabilitation program?</p><p>Participants will:</p><ul><li>Be physically evaluated by a physiotherapist before and after the progam of physical exercise training within cardiac rehabilitation.</li><li>Do individual exercises in a group led by a physiotherapist 2 …

Shortened Antibiotic Treatment of 5 Days in Gram-negative Bacteremia

GNB5 is an investigator-initiated multicentre non-inferiority randomized controlled trial which aims to assess the efficacy and safety of shortened antibiotic for patients hospitalized with a Gram negative bacteremia with a urinary tract source of infection (GNB). Five days after initiation of antimicrobial therapy for GNB, participants are randomized 1:1 to …

Antibiotic Selection Using Next Generation Sequencing vs Urine Culture

This is a randomized controlled clinical study evaluating the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) to improve antibiotic prescribing before ureteroscopy or percutaneous nephrolithotomy.

Evaluation of a TDM Program for Intensive Care Patients in the Cerebrospinal Fluid

Therapeutic drug monitoring of antibiotics in critically ill patients is a present research topic of the last ten years. Research results have shown subtherapeutic blood concentrations in those patients. However, the amount of antibiotics in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in patients with ventriculitis or meningitis is still unclear. This study …

Antibiotic Dosing in Geriatric Patients at the Emergency Department

In this pilot study, we will investigate whether - with the current dosing regimens, used in the Ghent University Hospital - pharmacodynamic targets regarding beta-lactam antibiotics (more specific Amoxicilline-Clavulanate, Piperacillin-Tazobactam and Temocillin) are attained in frail patients admitted to the geriatric department.