[PDF] Top 20 Guided (VENTRI GUIDE) versus freehand ventriculostomy: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

... on study participation. This study evaluates the outcome of an intervention performed often in an emergency ...this study will be delayed in a so-called emergency proced- ...the trial may be ... See full document

... Framingham Study, echocardiographic predictors of AF include left atrial enlargement (39% in- crease in risk per 5 mm increment) and left ventricular wall thickness (28% per 4 mm increment) ...Another study ... See full document

... maximum of 72 h of the culture being drawn and within 24 h of the confirmation of S. aureus. Patients are excluded if they are moribund due to other illnesses and are expected to die within 5 days of potential recruit- ... See full document

... Absolute values of continuous variables will be expressed using standard summary statistics, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and corresponding 95 % confidence interval. The study is designed to compare ... See full document

... a randomized trial designed to compare EN and PN; and/or contraindication to PN (known hypersensitivity to egg or soybean proteins or to another component, inborn error in amino acid metabolism or severe ... See full document

... vein and direct energy is delivered to the endothelium with collapsing and sealing of the vein as effect. Dur- ing the MESSI study, all participating centers are using the VNUS™ ClosureFAST™ catheter (VNUS Medical ... See full document

... We assumed a Weibull distribution for the FCT in each arm and a median FCT in the azithromycin arm of 1.12 days in those with culture-negative UFI and 2.78 days in those with culture-positive UFI. This corre- sponds to ... See full document

... Methods/design: Inclusion criteria are women between 18 and 69 years old with at least 10 cm long reticular veins in the lower limbs, on the outer side of the leg/thigh. Patients with CEAP 2 to 6, or with allergies, ... See full document

... The primary outcome measures will be self-assessed de- pression using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) [35] and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) [36]. PHQ-9 consists of nine items, each scored 0–3 and ... See full document

... CECOIA trial is funded by a grant of 236,700 euros ( € 236,700) from the France Ministry of Health through the national programme for clinical research in hospitals (Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique ... See full document

... a study nurse in the same conditions as those at base- ...a study nurse to assess wart disappearance and to ensure that no medical wart treatments were ... See full document

... our trial, it is not possible for the anesthesiologist who performs intraoperative anesthetic care to be blinded to the ...ultrasound- guided nerve ... See full document

... Which type of intraabdominal drain is most suitable? The final issue regarding drains in pancreatic surgery is which type of drain to use. Two types of surgical drains exist: open drains and closed drains. Open drains ... See full document

... Contemporaneous notes will be made during each interview and uploaded to NVivo analytical software be- fore thematic analysis [45]. To generate an initial coding framework, an independent thematic analysis will be ... See full document

... TRANSVERSAL trial is designed as a randomized controlled trial to compare transvaginal hybrid NOTES and laparoscopic-assisted sigmoid ... See full document

... All trial results whether positive, negative, or neutral will end up in the public domain, preferably in a peer-reviewed ...All trial sites with at least 25 randomized patients will be granted one ... See full document

... The rates for the primary endpoint: major morbidity, re- intervention and mortality for PC were 6.2, 13.1 and 12.7% respectively in the review and 22.2, 18.5 and 14.8% in our own series. We believe that the 6.2% ... See full document

... Bi-TPAI trial is a multicenter, parallel group, randomized, controlled, non-inferiority trial in patients with early ...Bi-TPAI trial will include 220 patients with HTG-AP from 17 large ... See full document

... this study was that we were not able to blind the therapists, volunteers, or participants, which might affect the intervention ...many randomized control trials. Finally, although in our study we ... See full document

... Patients allocated to the dydrogesterone group will receive dydrogesterone 40 mg per os, followed by 10 mg per os three times a day, and an identical-looking pla- cebo will be used in the control group accordingly. Con- ... See full document