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Clinical Trials

1 Identifying Critically-ill Patients With COVID-19 Who Will Benefit Most From Nutrition Support Therapy: Validation of the NUTRIC Nutritional Risk Assessment Tool (COV_NUTRIC)

There was an interaction between mortality, nutritional intake and the Nutrition Risk in Critically ill (NUTRIC) score suggesting that those with higher NUTRIC scores benefited the most from increasing nutritional intake. Yet limited data were in Chinese patients. The current outbreak of novel coronavirus, named COVID-19, was first reported from Wuhan, China on Dec ember 31 , 2019. There are about 16% patients need ICU admission. The objective of this study is to validation of the "NUTRIC" nutritional risk assessment tool in Chinese ICU patients diagnosed as COVID-19.

NCT04274322 Critically Ill Coronavirus Infections Other: Nutrition support

MeSH:Coronavirus Infections Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Critical Illness

2 Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 in Hong Kong: a Multicentre Observational Cohort Study

The purpose of this case series is to describe the characteristics, organ dysfunction and support and 2 week outcomes of critically ill patients with nCov infection.

NCT04285801 COVID-19

MeSH:Critical Illness

3 Outcomes in Patients With Acute Encephalopathy and SARS-Cov-2 Infection

Infection with SARS-CoV-2 or severe acute respiratory syndrome coronarvirus type 2 was highlighted in December 2019 in the city of Wuhan in China, responsible for an pandemic evolution since March 11, 2020. The infection affects all ages of life, although affecting children in a very small proportion of cases. The typical presentation of the disease combines fever (98%), cough (76%), myalgia and asthenia (18%) as well as leukopenia (25%) and lymphopenia (63%). Upper airway involvement rare. The main clinical presentation requiring hospitalization of infected patients is that of atypical pneumonia which may require critical care management (27%), and progress to an acute respiratory distress syndrome (67%) involving life-threatening conditions in almost 25% of patients diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Other organ damage have been reported, mainly concerning kidney damage (29%) which may require renal replacement therapy in approximately 17% of patients. Neurological damage has been very rarely studied, yet reported in 36% of cases in a study including patients of varying severity. Finally, the mortality associated with this emerging virus is high in patients for whom critical care management is necessary, reported in 62% of patients. We therefore propose a prospective observational study which aim at reporting the prevalence of acute encephalopathy at initial management in Critical/Intensive care or Neurocritical care , to report its morbidity and mortality and to identify prognostic factors.

NCT04320472 COVID-19 Encephalopathy Critically Ill Other: Follow up

MeSH:Brain Diseases Critical Illness

HPO:Encephalopathy

4 Outcomes and Prognostic Factors in Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in Very Old Intensive Care Patients

The primary aim is to study the short-term outcome of elderly ICU patients (≥ 70 years) suffering from COVID-19 using a multicenter and multi-national approach The secondary aim is to investigate the properties of a simple frailty index in this cohort, and in particular if this is an instrument that can be used in resource and outcome prediction in this group To create hypothesis for further studies, in particular on various outcome prediction To create hypothesis for further studies, in particular on various outcome prediction

NCT04321265 COVID-19 Elderly Patients Critical Illness Survival Old Age

MeSH:Critical Illness

5 Efficacy of Addition of Naproxen in the Treatment of Critically Ill Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19 Infection

The symptoms of respiratory distress caused by COVID-19 may be reduced by drugs combining anti-inflammatory and antiviral effects. This dual effect may simultaneously protect severely-ill patients and reduce the viral load, therefore limiting virus dissemination We want to demonstrate the superiority of naproxen (anti-inflamatory drug) treatment addition to standard of care compared to standard of care in term of 30-day mortality.

NCT04325633 COVID-19 Drug: 1: Naproxen Drug: 2: Standard of care

MeSH:Critical Illness

6 French Multicentre Observational Study on SARS-Cov-2 Infections (COVID-19) ICU Management: the FRENCH CORONA Study

Since December 2019, a new agent, the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus has been rapidly spreading from China to other countries causing an international outbreak of respiratory illnesses named COVID-19. In France, the first cases have been reported at the end of January with more than 60000 cases reported since then. A significant proportion (20-30%) of hospitalized COVID-19 patients will be admitted to intensive care unit. However, few data are available for this special population in France. We conduct a large observational cohort of ICU suspected or proven COVID-19 patients that will enable to describe the initial management of COVID 19 patients admitted to ICU and to identify factors correlated to clinical outcome.

NCT04340466 Pneumonia, Viral Critically Ill Corona Virus Infection Other: No intervention

MeSH:Infection Communicable Diseases Coronavirus Infections Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Pneumonia, Viral Pneumonia Critical Illness

HPO:Pneumonia

7 A Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Mycobacterium W in Critically Ill Patients Suffering From COVID 19 Infection

The trial is randomized, blinded, two arms, active comparator controlled, clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Mycobacterium w in combination with standard care as per hospital practice versus standard care alone in critically ill adult patients suffering from COVID-19 infection.

NCT04347174 COVID-19 Drug: Suspension of heat killed (autoclaved) Mycobacterium w Drug: Standard therapy of COVID-19

MeSH:Mycobacterium Infections Critical Illness

8 Epidemiology and Outcomes of Critically Ill Patients With Covid 19: a French Single Centre Experience

Since the outbreak of a syndrome of acute respiratory distress associated to a novel coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov2) that began in China, Europe and France have to face a sanitary emergency with critically care support when the patient evolves to an acute respiratory distress (ARDS). In the context of supply shortages (ventilators, bed capacities) that countries have to deal with, data were lacking of characteristics and outcomes of patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU). the purpose of this project is to report the epidemiology and the outcomes of a French cohort of critically ill patients with SARS-Cov2

NCT04354558 Epidemiology Sars-CoV2 COVID 19 Critical Care Prognostic Survival

MeSH:Critical Illness

9 Coagulation Assays in the Critically Ill Patient: a New Approach Using the Thrombomodulin-modified Thrombin Generation Assay (TGA-TM)

Inflammation and abnormalities in laboratory coagulation tests are inseparably tied. For example, coagulation abnormalities are nearly universal in septic patients. Coagulation disorders have also been reported in many patients with severe courses of Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). But it is difficult to assess these changes. Global coagulation tests have been shown to incorrectly assess in vivo coagulation in patients admitted to intensive care units. But other tests are available. Thrombin generation assay (TGA) is a laboratory test which allows the assessment of an individual's potential to generate thrombin. But also in conventional TGA the protein C system is hardly activated because of the absence of endothelial cells (containing natural thrombomodulin) in the plasma sample. Therefore the investigators add recombinant human thrombomodulin to a conventional TGA. Thereby the investigators hope to be able to depict in vivo coagulation more closely than global coagulation tests do.

NCT04356144 Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation Critical Illness Sars-CoV2 Viral Infection Coagulation Disorder, Blood Covid19 Diagnostic Test: Thrombin Generation Assay (TGA) Diagnostic Test: Thrombomodulin Modified Thrombin Generation Assay (TGA-TM)

MeSH:Infection Hemostatic Disorders Blood Coagulation Disorders Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation Critical Illness Virus Diseases

HPO:Abnormality of coagulation Abnormality of the coagulation cascade Disseminated intravascular coagulation

10 The RIsk Stratification in COVID-19 Patients in the ICU Registry

The Risk stratification in COVID-19 patients in the ICU (RISC-19-ICU) registry was founded during the emerging SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. COVID-19 is a novel disease caused by infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus that was first described in December 2019. The disease has spread exponentially in many countries and has reached global pandemic status within three months. According to first experience, hospitalization was required in approximately 20 % of cases and severe, life-threatening illness resulted in approximately 10 %. In some countries, health care systems were overwhelmed by the rapid increase in critically ill patients that far exceeded their capacity. It is thus of utmost importance to gain knowledge about the characteristics and course of critically ill patients with COVID-19 and to stratify these patients according to their risk for further deterioration. A key part of fighting this pandemic is to exchange scientific information and advance our understanding of the disease. The Risk stratification in COVID-19 patients in the ICU (RISC-19-ICU) registry aims to collect an anonymized dataset to characterize patients that develop life-threatening critical illness due to COVID-19 and make it accessible to collaborative analysis. The data collected may be composed of a core dataset and/or an extended dataset. The core dataset consists of a basic set of parameters, of which many are commonly generated during treatment of critically ill patients with COVID-19 in an intensive care unit (the individual parameters are marked yellow in the attached case report forms, and are clearly marked on the electronic case report forms during data entry). The extended dataset consists of parameters that may be measured during treatment of critically ill patients with COVID-19 in an intensive care unit, depending on clinical practice, indication and availability of the measurement method. The data accumulating in the registry as the pandemic or subsequent waves develop are made available to the collaborators to support an optimal response to the pandemic threat. The information gained on the initial characteristics and disease course via the RISC-19-ICU registry may contribute to a better understanding of the risk factors for developing critical illness due to COVID-19 and for an unfavorable disease course, and thus support informed patient triage and management decisions. Initial research questions are (I) to perform risk stratification of critically ill patients with COVID-19 to find predictors associated with the development of critical illness due to COVID-19: characterization of the study population, which are critically ill patients with COVID-19: inflammation, oxygenation, circulatory function, among other parameters collected in the registry, and (II) to perform risk stratification of critically ill patients with COVID-19 to predict outcome after ICU admission (ICU mortality, ICU length of stay): characterization of patients grouped by disease course in the ICU, based on inflammation, oxygenation, circulatory function, and other parameters collected in the registry.

NCT04357275 Critical Illness ARDS Inflammatory Response COVID-19 Circulatory Shock Other: ICU treatment

MeSH:Critical Illness Shock

11 Assessment of Endothelial and Haemostatic Changes During Severe SARS-CoV-2 Infection

The outbreak at covid-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This virus can be responsible for severe respiratory failure but also for extra-respiratory organ dysfunctions associated with severe inflammatory stress. The endothelium is an important structure of the blood vessels and is implicated in the organ failure of many patients admitted in intensive care units. It could be affected by the virus and its alteration may explain the organ dysfunction of covid-19 ICU patients as well as the thrombotic processes frequently obstructed in this infection.

NCT04357847 Covid-19 Endothelial Dysfunction Thrombosis Critically Ill

MeSH:Thrombosis Critical Illness

12 Anxiety and Work Resilience Among Tertiary University Hospital Workers During the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Online Survey

For limiting COVID-19 spreading, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended worldwide confinement on 2010. In France, unessential institutions were closed on March 14th and population confinement was decided on March 17th. Quarantine and/or confinement could lead to psychological effects such as confusion, suicide ideation, post-traumatic stress symptoms or anger COVID-19 outbreak highlighted a considerable proportion of health care workers (HCW) with depression, insomnia, anxiety and distress symptoms. In front line, facing the virus with the fear of contracting it and contaminate their closest. During previous outbreaks (H1N1, SARS), HCWs have been shown to experience such negative psychological effects of confinement as well as work avoidance behaviour and physical interaction reduction with infected patients (4-7). In France, Covid 19 outbeak led to increase ICU bed capacity with a full reorganization of the human resources. Some caregivers were reassigned to newly setup units admitting or not Covid-19 patients. In the same time, non-caregivers were also encouraged to work at home whenever possible. Thus, every hospital staff member's private and professional life could be altered by the Covid-19 outbreak. As all these changes in the daily life could induce psychological disturbances, the present study was aimed at assessing the acute anxiety level (main objective) of the staff in our Tertiary University Hospital, (6300 employees). Secondarily, the self-reported insomnia, pain, catastrophism and work avoidance behaviour levels were assessed

NCT04358640 Critical Illness Sars-CoV2 SARS Pneumonia Coronavirus Infection Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

MeSH:Coronavirus Infections Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Pneumonia Critical Illness Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

HPO:Pneumonia

13 A Randomized, Double-blind, Two Arm, Controlled Clinical Trial to Compare the Efficacy and Safety of Mycobacterium w (Mw) Administered Along With Standard of Care Versus Placebo Administered Along With Standard of Care, in Adult, COVID 19 Positive Patients Hospitalized But Not Critically Ill.

This is a randomized, double blind, two arms, placebo controlled, clinical trial to study to evaluate the the safety and efficacy of Mycobacterium w in combination with standard of care versus placebo with standard of care for preventing the progression of COVID-19 disease and for reduction in transfer to ICU in COVID-19 infected patients admitted to the hospital.

NCT04358809 COVID-19 Drug: Suspension of heat killed (autoclaved) Mycobacterium w Other: Placebo

MeSH:Mycobacterium Infections Critical Illness

14 Biomarker-guided Assessment of Neurocognitive Impairment in Patients With COVID-19 - a Multicenter Case-control Study

Delirium and acute neurocognitive impairment are increasingly observed in adult and pediatric patients with COVID-19. Prospective clinical studies combining clinical and laboratory examinations including specific biomarkers of neuroaxonal injury were not performed for COVID-19. The value of biomarkers of neuroaxonal injury was proven in preliminary studies. These biomarkers could thus contribute to the systematic detection of neurocognitive impairment in patients with COVID-19. Due to worldwide increasing numbers of hospitalized patients with COVID-19, biomarkers of neuroaxonal injury are highly valuable to detect and monitor cognitive impairment, especially with regard to limited resources available to perform time-consuming brain imaging. Biomarkers of neuroaxonal injury are therefore not only of great interest to detect neurocognitive impairment but also to quantify the severity of brain injury in patients with COVID-19.

NCT04359914 Critical Illness COVID-19 Central Nervous System Injury Delirium Encephalopathy

MeSH:Delirium Brain Diseases Trauma, Nervous System Critical Illness

HPO:Encephalopathy

15 Long Term Outcomes of Patients With COVID-19

The investigators hypothesize that those with respiratory failure due to COVID-19 will have different burdens of mental and physical disability than those with respiratory failure who do not have COVID-19. Detecting these potential differences will lay an important foundation for treating long term sequelae of respiratory failure in these two cohorts.

NCT04360538 Critical Illness Corona Virus Infection Respiratory Failure Covid-19 Other: Quality of Life Other: Impact Event Score Other: Hospital anxiety and depression scale

MeSH:Coronavirus Infections Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Respiratory Insufficiency Critical Illness

16 A Study to Evaluate Health Behavior and Access Impacts Due to COVID-19 and for Community Engagement of Stakeholders Surrounding Scarce Resource Allocation Policy.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is affecting the way many people live their lives, including seeking medical care and maintaining good self-care to keep healthy. Additionally, in the event many people become critically ill at once, COVID-19 has the possibility of overwhelming hospitals to the point where they have to make decisions about how to determine who receives intensive care and life-support measures. Many hospitals as well as local or state governments have been working on policies to determine how to make these decisions. This study seeks to learn about how COVID-19 has affected the way patients and healthcare providers care for themselves and about their thoughts and concerns about policies that may "ration" life-support resources.

NCT04373135 Covid-19 Critical Illness Attitude of Health Personnel Attitude to Health Health Behavior Health Care Utilization Behavioral: Brief educational video

MeSH:Critical Illness

17 Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Critically Ill Patients With Severe COVID-19

Severe COVID-19 patients at a high risk of venous thromboembolism. We studied patients in 2 intensive care units of university hospitals in Barcelona and Badalona, Spain. We performed a cut-off screening of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) with bilateral duplex ultrasound to 230 patients.

NCT04374617 COVID-19 Critical Illness Venous Thromboembolism Venous Thromboses Venous Thromboses, Deep Venous Thrombosis Pulmonary Pulmonary Embolism Pulmonary Embolism and Thrombosis Sars-CoV2 SARS-CoV Infection Diagnostic Test: Duplex ultrasound and Computed Tomography Angiography

MeSH:Coronavirus Infections Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Pulmonary Embolism Thrombosis Thromboembolism Embolism Venous Thromboembolism Venous Thrombosis Embolism and Thrombosis Critical Illness

HPO:Deep venous thrombosis Pulmonary embolism Thromboembolism Venous thrombosis

18 Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients With COVID-19 Admitted to the ICU

This is a case series of patients with COVID-19 admitted to the largest university hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Data will be collected prospectively and retrospectively. The main objective is to describe the characteristics of critically ill patients with COVID-19 and their clinical outcomes, and to identify risk factors associated with survival, to inform clinical decision-making and to guide the strategy to mitigate the epidemic, both within each hospital and ICU and in public health management.

NCT04378582 SARS-CoV 2 Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult Corona Virus Infection Critical Illness Other: risk factors

MeSH:Coronavirus Infections Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult Acute Lung Injury Critical Illness

19 Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Infection on the Incidence of ICU Acquired Colonization Related to Multidrug-resistant Bacteria

This multicenter before-after study aimed to determine the impact of infection related to SARS-CoV-2 on the incidence of ICU-acquired multidrug resistant (MDR) bacteria.

NCT04378842 Sars-CoV2 Critical Illness

MeSH:Critical Illness

20 Epidemiological Analysis of the Mortality of Critically Ill Patients With the COVID-19 Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit: An Observational, Prospective and Multicenter Study

The recent pandemic of the COVID-19 disease has caused a national health emergency due to its severity and the clinical and social consequences of the disease. Crude mortality in Spain is 9.2%. However, the causes of death of critically ill patients with COVID-19 are unknown. To date, no treatment has been shown to be effective for the 2019-SARS-CoV-2 infection is recommended. Supportive care and isolation are recommended for infected individuals. Currently, observational studies on critically ill patients with COVID-19 have small samples. The objective is to evaluate the incidence of mortality and morbidity in COVID-19 disease in this group of critically ill patients, as well as the risk factors associated with mortality and the effectiveness of the treatments used compassionately.

NCT04379258 COVID-19 Critical Illness Effectiveness Outcome, Fatal

MeSH:Critical Illness

21 Pulmonary and Motor Rehabilitation for People With COVID-19 in Intensive Care Units to Reduce Length of Stay in Hospital

COVID-19 DISEASE Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory tract infection caused by a newly emergent coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome from COVID-19, that was first recognized in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. While most people with COVID-19 develop mild or uncomplicated illness, approximately 14% develop severe disease requiring hospitalization and oxygen support and 5% require admission to an intensive care unit. In severe cases, COVID-19 can be complicated by acute respiratory disease syndrome (ARDS) requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation, sepsis and septic shock, multiorgan failure, including acute kidney, liver and cardiac injury. ARDS REHABILITATION Critically ill people who undergo prolonged mechanical ventilation often develop weakness, with severe symmetrical weakness of and deconditioning of the proximal musculature and of the respiratory muscles (critical illness neuropathy/myopathy).These individuals also develop significant functional impairment and reduced health-related quality of life (HRQL) up to 2 and 5 years after discharge. ARDS survivors may complain of depression, anxiety, memory disturbances, and difficulty with concentration often unchanged at 2 and 5 years. Less than half of all ARDS survivors return to work within the first year following discharge, two-thirds at two years, and more than 70% at five years. Early physiotherapy (PT) of people with ARDS has recently been suggested as a complementary therapeutic tool to improve early and late outcomes. The aims of PT programs should be to reduce complications of immobilization and ventilator-dependency, to improve residual function, to prevent new hospitalisations, and to improve health status and HRQL. Physiotherapy in critical patients is claimed also to prevent and contribute to treat respiratory complications such as secretion retention, atelectasis, and pneumonia. Early mobilization and maintenance of muscle strength may reduce the risk of difficult weaning, limited mobility, and ventilator dependency. Lastly, pulmonary rehabilitation in ICU in mechanically ventilated subjects may reduce length of stay in ICU up to 4.5 day, shorten mechanical ventilation of 2.3 days and weaning by 1.7 days. The aim of this study is to investigate how early pulmonary and motor rehabilitation impacts on length of hospital admission (ICU and acute ward) and early and late outcomes inpatients that develop ARDS due to COVID-19.

NCT04381338 Corona Virus Disease 19 (COVID-19) COVID Acute Lung Injury/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Critical Illness Other: Pulmonary and Motor Rehabilitation

MeSH:Coronavirus Infections Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult Acute Lung Injury Lung Injury Critical Illness Virus Diseases

22 Characteristics and Outcomes of Critically Ill Patients With Covid-19 in a Large Swedish County Hospital - a Prospective Observational Cohort Study

The study will prospectively collect data from patients with Covid-19 admitted to the Västerås Intensive Care Unit, Västerås Hospital. Demographic, clinical, radiographic and laboratory characteristics will be recorded. Analysis of data to identify predictors of disease severity, mortality and treatment response.

NCT04382417 Covid-19 Critical Illness Other: Observational study

MeSH:Critical Illness

23 InterMediate ProphylACtic Versus Therapeutic Dose Anticoagulation in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19: A Prospective Randomized Study (The IMPACT Trial)

The purpose of this study is to determine if therapeutic dose anticoagulation (experimental group) improves 30-day mortality in participants with COVID-19 compared to those patients receiving the intermediate dose prophylaxis (control group). Following screening, subjects will be randomized 1:1 to intermediate dose prophylaxis or therapeutic dose anticoagulation treatment arms.Treatment will continue for 28 days, followed by a 6 month follow-up period.

NCT04406389 COVID-19 Drug: Enoxaparin sodium Drug: Unfractionated heparin Drug: Fondapariniux Drug: Argatroban

MeSH:Critical Illness

24 Clinical Characteristics of Critically Ill Patients With 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): Do We Need a New Scoring System?

Critically ill patients with COVID-19 have hospitalized in an ICU due to the closer monitoring and therapy. In fact, ICU admissions are dependent on the severity of illness and the ICU capacity of the health-care system. Hence, it may be need a new scoring system for contagious critically ill patients.

NCT04413435 Coronavirus Infection Critical Illness Characteristics Disease Other: File Scanning

MeSH:Coronavirus Infections Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Critical Illness

25 Confirmation of Ventilation and Intubation by Determination With Ultrasonography: A Multicenter Observational Study

Chest radiography is the gold standard for confirming tracheal intubation. Bedside ultrasound can be a useful alternative. The investigators are conducting a multi-center, observational study from January 2019 to May 2020 (COVID-US Study) to determine the feasibility of tracheal and lung ultrasound in confirming endotracheal tube placement in the critically ill.

NCT04419064 Critical Illness Mechanical Ventilation Diagnostic Test: Point of care ultrasound

MeSH:Critical Illness

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