Evaluation of Patients With Critical Illness

Completed

Conditions studied: Critical Illness

In brief

This study provides training opportunities for critical care specialists in evaluating and treating critically ill patients. Patients enrolled in the study receive standard tests and treatments. The study objectives are to: * Provide additional training for staff of the NIH Clinical Center intensive care unit, including physicians, nurses, fellows, and other trainees so that they develop and maintain essential skills, * Gather information about the natural history and outcomes of critical illness, accompanying conditions, and complications, * Develop hypotheses about the medical problems involved in the illnesses and their treatment, and * Identify critically ill patients who may be eligible for specific NIH research protocols. Critically ill patients 18 years of age and older who may benefit by transferring to the NIH Clinical Center for treatment may be eligible for this study. Patients will be transferred to the Clinical Center from another hospital only when the referring and accepting physicians in both institutions agree that the potential benefit of coming to the NIH outweighs the risk of transferring the patient. Participants are evaluated and treated at the Clinical Center. Patients provide a medical history and have a physical examination. They may also have various medical tests and procedures needed to evaluate their condition. These procedures may include blood work, placement of an intravenous (IV) line, x-rays and other imaging tests such as computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and other procedures. Patients who are diagnosed with a specific condition may be offered treatment or may be referred to another study that is more appropriate for that particular problem.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00100217

Run by

National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)

People needed

1

Starts

2004-12-21

Expected to finish

2010-06-25

Last updated by the study team

2017-07-02

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients with the following problems will be excluded from study:
• Patient who does not require critical care.
• Patient for whom further therapy is deemed futile by the attending physician.
• Patient with known pregnancy, prior to enrollment in the protocol.
• Any concurrent condition (medical, social, behavioral), which in the opinion of the medical team would preclude or confound acquisition/interpretation of data or delivery of clinical care.
• Less then 18 years of age.
• Any patient not requiring ICU admission according to the SCCM and CCMD guidelines for ICU or intermediate care admissions or without a diagnosis or probable diagnosis on the ICU training protocol diagnosis list.
• Risk of transfer out weighs the benefit of the transfer for the patient.
• No Durable Power of Attorney.

Where it is running

• National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike — Bethesda, Maryland, United States

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