Found 7 clinical trials
Head Position on Preventing Emergence Cough
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of head position on prevent the emergence cough followed by endotracheal extubation.
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- 19 Feb, 2024
Cognitive Outcomes After Dexmedetomidine Sedation in Cardiac Surgery Patients
Anesthesia is a drug induced, reversible, comatose state that facilitates surgery and it is widely assumed that cognition returns to baseline after anesthetics have been eliminated. However, many patients have persistent memory impairment for weeks to months after surgery. Cardiac surgery appears to carry the highest risk of postoperative cognitive …
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- 19 Feb, 2024
Driving Pressure in Neurosurgery
The effect of driving pressure (DP)-guided positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) on early postoperative pulmonary ventilation is to be determined for patients undergoing neurosurgery. Patients are recruited to receive volume controlled ventilation with either a fixed PEEP (5cmH2O) or DP titrated PEEP. Early postoperative regional distribution of lung ventilation, expressed …
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- 19 Feb, 2024
Doxapram Therapy in Preterm Infants (DOXA Trial)
Preterm infants often suffer from apnea of prematurity (AOP; a cessation of breathing) due to immaturity of the respiratory system. AOP can lead to oxygen shortage and a low heart rate which might harm the development of the newborn, especially the central nervous system. In order to prevent oxygen shortage, …
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- 19 Feb, 2024
Interest of a Period of Fasting Before Extubation in Resuscitation Patients
The hypothesis is that continued enteral nutrition before extubation is associated with increased gastric volume as measured by ultrasound.
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- 19 Feb, 2024
Lung Ultrasound in COVID-19 Patients
To assess the prognostic performance of an early global LUS score with respect to the mortality in ICU and duration of ventilation.
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- 19 Feb, 2024
Clinical Scores for Outcome Prediction in Patients With Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia Requiring ECMO
The prognosis of patients with severe COVID-19 disease, whose lungs are so severely diseased that they need to be supported by veno-venous ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), is difficult to assess so far. Previously published data from studies, case reports and case series describe a very high mortality in this patient …
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- 19 Feb, 2024