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Introduction:
Postoperative pain is one of the greatest patient concerns following any surgery. Although an increased emphasis has been placed on pain management, approximately 80% of surgical patients report postoperative pain with 86% of patients rating their pain as moderate, severe, or
Within this definition, patients can further be defined as having silent, potential, or latent celiac disease. The term silent celiac disease refers to patients fulfilling the definition above, but presenting no symptoms. Typically, such diagnoses are made by screening asymptomatic individuals, who
This is a prospective, unblinded, randomized controlled pilot trial to evaluate the impact of the BRIDGE device when used on patients at high risk of opioid withdrawal following opioid exposure.
The investigator team hypothesized that treatment of pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) patients (ages
STUDY DESIGN Subjects: Pediatric patients aged 7-17 years presenting to the ED with acute painful conditions such as traumatic and non-traumatic abdominal, flank, back, musculoskeletal pain, vaso-occlusive painful crisis of sickle cell disease, and lacerations with a pain score of 5 or more on a
According to the CDC, 115 Americans die every day due to opioid overdose. Prescription opioid related overdose deaths accounted for 40% of all opioid deaths in the US in 2016. In surgery, opioids are an effective tool in reducing pain in the postoperative state. However, this may lead to dependence
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of fecal microbiome transplantation in patients with steroid resistant/dependent acute gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).
Inclusion criteria:
1. Age>= 14 yrs ≤60 yrs.
2. Diagnosed with hematological diseases.
3.
PPH occurs in approximately 1-5% of deliveries in the United States and accounts for 20-25% of maternal deaths worldwide. PPH is difficult to predict, but classically, risk factors for PPH- uterine atony, abruption, retained tissue, lacerations, infection, obesity, preeclampsia, magnesium
The purpose of this pilot study is to measure adherence and quality of life in adults with intractable epilepsy following the Modified Atkins Diet (MAD) with Betaquik, a ready-to-use medium chain triglyceride (MCT) emulsion, as an adjunct to the MAD.
The participants dietitian will recommend an
meningitis is a notifiable disease in many countries, the exact incidence rate is unknown. In 2013 meningitis resulted in 303,000 deaths - down from 464,000 deaths in 1990. In 2010 it was estimated that meningitis resulted in 420,000 deaths, excluding cryptococcal meningitis.
Bacterial meningitis
The study drug used in this research study is perampanel, an FDA approved medication for the treatment of seizures. The study is being done to examine whether the study drug affects the following non-invasive tests of brain activity: electroencephalogram (EEG), visual evoked potential (VEP),
MATERIALS AND METHODS
After approval of the institutional Ethics committee board, written informed consent will be taken from all the eligible and willing patients.
A. Study design: Randomized double blind active controlled parallel group noninferiority clinical trial.
B. Randomization: A variable
The goal of this study is to establish the effect of the compensation of vitamin D deficiency in the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy with a high level of evidence in a large population. For that, the investigator aim to perform a controlled multicentre prospective double-blind randomized study
METHODOLOGY
- Consent: Participants will be explained the benefit and harm of joining the study and the freedom of withdrawing from the study at any moment they would like to. A full voluntary written informed consent will be obtained from each participant. Study will be conducted following the
This study was designed to be a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded parallel study and this study was carried out at Ain-Shams university hospitals, from December 2014 to January2016, on 75 female patients aged between 25 and 35 years old of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)
After approval from the ethics committee of Menoufia University Hospitals and informed written consent, the present study was conducted on sixty patients of both sexes. Patients' age was between 18-50 years, American society of anesthesiologists (ASA) I and II and scheduled for awake craniotomy for