Found 486 clinical trials
Future of Colorectal Cancer Surgery
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK and Ireland, it is the second commonest cancer in both men and women. Very often the diagnosis is made by either endoscopy/colonoscopy and the surgical treatment is carried out by a minimally invasive approach ("Keyhole"surgery). Tissue samples gathered by …
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- 19 Feb, 2024
Lung Function Exercise Capacity and Health-Related Quality of Life After Severe COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory tract infection caused by a newly emergent coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that can progress to severe disease requiring hospitalization and oxygen support in around14% of the cases and 5% require admission in intensive care unit. The medium and long-term impact in survivors of severe COVID-19 …
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- 19 Feb, 2024
Epidemiological Study of the Microbiota in Critically Ill Children (n=100) From 1 to 16 Years Compared With Healthy Controls (n=50) and Its Relationship With Clinical Complications and Inflammatory Biomarkers
Objectives: To study the composition of the microbiota in critically ill children, and to know the relationship of its microbiota with clinical complications and inflammation biomarkers. Design: Multicenter observational and prospective study including 100 critically ill children admitted in three pediatric intensive care units with a prediction of more than …
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- 19 Feb, 2024
Wearable Sensor to Monitor COVID-19 Like Signs and Symptoms
Develop a wearable sensor package to gather data on COVID-19-like signs and symptoms such as elevated body temperature, respiratory parameters, heart rate ,cough and gait. Create algorithms to monitor and track changes to COVID19-like signs and symptoms for developing a better care and isolation strategies for COVID-19 pandemic.
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- 19 Feb, 2024
Evaluation of Long-term Incidence of Ventricular Arrhythmias in Patients With Acute Myocarditis
Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the heart muscle which is mostly caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites, toxic substances/drugs or by primary autoimmune mechanisms. Signs of heart failure (dyspnea, reduced resilience, tendency to edema), thoracic pain, palpitations / arrhythmias / syncope, as well as (potentially) lethal clinical conditions in the …
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- 19 Feb, 2024
Plenvu 1 - Questionnaire Study Exploring Patients Preference in Bowel Preparation Timings for Morning Colonoscopy
Questionnaire study exploring patients preference in bowel preparation timings for morning colonoscopy.
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- 19 Feb, 2024
Pacing to Maintain Physiologic Ventricular Activation
Right ventricular pacing causes ventricular dyssynchrony and may be associated with impaired outcome. In the last decade, several approaches for more physiological pacing became available and were implemented in the latest guidelines. However, compared to conventional device implantation, cardiac resynchronization, His bundle pacing and left bundle area pacing remain demanding …
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- 19 Feb, 2024
The COVID-19 Disease and CARdiac Events Study
An observational study of consecutive patients testing positive for COVID-19 who require admission to hospital to determine the degree of myocardial injury through biomarkers and echocardiography and the impact of this on cardiovascular outcomes. The COVID-19 disease and CARdiac Events study (COVICARE).
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- 19 Feb, 2024
Effect of Pre-existing Adjacent Segment Degeneration on Long-term Effectiveness After Lumbar Fusion Surgery
This is a prospective single-center study. Patients requiring posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) for lumbar degenerative disease are prospectively enrolled and followed. Important adjacent pre-existing degeneration factors include discs degenerated, facets and ligamentum flavum tropism which could lead to spinal canal stenosis (SCS). This study will focus on the effects …
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- 19 Feb, 2024
Skin-to-skin Contact in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Caregiving Touch and Neural Correlates of Slow Stroking Touch in Preterm Infants
Preterm (PT) infants spend their first weeks of life in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) where receive little affective physical contact, which plays a crucial role in brain development. Evidence indicates that skin-to-skin contact (SSC) has a positive effect on infants' neurophysiological and behavioral adjustment to postnatal life. Moreover, caregiving …
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- 19 Feb, 2024