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Fluids in mechanically ventilated children with acute infectious lung disease: how dry should they be?

This research project aims to determine the feasibility of setting up a randomized controlled trial to study the effects of different fluid management protocols on the outcome of mechanically ventilated pediatric patients with acute infectious lung…

A prospective, randomized, intra-patient, comparative, open, multi-centre study to evaluate the efficacy of a Single-Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) System (PICO) on the prevention of postsurgical incision healing complications in patients undergoing reduction mammoplasty

Primary Objective:To assess the difference in healing complications up to and 21 days post-operatively between postsurgical incisions treated with PICO compared with standard of care Incision healing complications will include;* Skin necrosis*…

The effect of enriched enteral nutrition on inflammation and sub-clinical organ dysfunction during human endotoxemia

The primairy goal of the current study is to investigate the effect of enriched nutrition on systemic levels of TNF-alpha.The secundairy goal is to investigate the effect of enriched nutrition on other markers of inflammation, splanchnic perfusion…

In vivo effects of the selective a7nAChR agonist GTS-21 on inflammation

Aim of this study is to investigate the effects of oral administration of GTS-21 in healthy volunteers on cytokine release in ex-vivo TLR agonists stimulated whole blood . Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic data will be collected with respect to…

Increasing condom use in STI clinic clients: Promoting the formation of Implementation Intentions to overcome the discrepancy between motivation and action.

To assess whether a self-administered intervention to promote the formation of Implementation Intentions successfully promotes the use of condoms in both lower and higher risk clients of an STI clinic and reduces the well-known discrepancy between…

Albumin administration in the prevention of hepatorenal syndrome and death in patients with cirrhosis, bacterial infections other than spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and high risk of hospital mortality.

The aim of this study is to evaluate if IV albumin administration improves short-term survival in patients with advanced cirrhosis (serum creatinine * 1.2 mg/dl, serum sodium * 130 mEq/l and/or serum bilirubin *4 mg/dl), signs of systemic…