Status:
COMPLETED
Evaluation of Patients With Critical Illness
Lead Sponsor:
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Conditions:
Critical Illness
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Brief Summary
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 s...
Detailed Description
This protocol is designed as a training study, to permit evaluation and treatment of subjects with critical illnesses. A data base, not otherwise obtainable, will be collected of disease processes rel...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- INCLUSION CRITERIA
- Patients are subject to selection by the principal and associate investigators, and will fit any of the following criteria:
- Patient with critical illness, who, in the opinion of the accepting physician, may obtain medical benefit by transfer to the CC.
- Patient requiring ICU admission according to the SCCM and CCMD guidelines for ICU or intermediate care admissions and with a diagnosis or probable diagnosis on the ICU training protocol diagnosis list or a diagnosis deemed to be appropriate for staff training.
- Patient not on the diagnosis list may be admitted at the discretion of the attending physician, if there is prospect of direct medical benefit to the patient.
- Age 18 years or older.
- Patient may or may not be able to give consent. If the patient is competent, he/she will give written consent prior to transfer to NIH. If the patient is unable to provide informed consent, written witnessed consent will be obtained from the appointed Durable Power of Attorney.
- Patient may or may not have other chronic illness.
- Patient may be receiving medications for chronic illness treated by their private primary care physicians.
- Patient who lacks primary medical care outside the NIH may be enrolled in this protocol, if an appropriate referral can be made to a competent healthcare provider who has agreed to assume care when the patient is discharged.
- Patient currently on other NIH protocols requiring ICU admission may be included in this study.
- The benefit of transferring the patient to the NIH out weighs the risk of the transfer for the patient.
- Available ICU bed in the MICU.
- EXCLUSION CRITERIA
- 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.
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
December 21 2004
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
June 25 2010
Estimated Enrollment :
1 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00100217
Start Date
December 21 2004
End Date
June 25 2010
Last Update
July 2 2017
Active Locations (1)
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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892