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STUDY DESIGN:
This is a randomized double blind clinical trial of the BioVac suction device versus standard endoscopy suction for UGIB. The study will be performed at London Health Sciences Center Victoria Campus and University Campus with an anticipated recruitment period of 2.5 years.
STUDY
This is a prospective, randomized, parallel-group single centre trial in the Queen Mary Hospital and Fung Yiu King Hospital. Investigators aim to recruit 100 subjects who would be qualified for the Hospital Authority (HA)/ Centre for Health Protection (CHP) Mass Vaccination Program for Trivalent
Methods
1. Study population:
Eligible patients will be healthy preterm infants born at 30 0/7 or less than weeks of gestation, or weigh less than 1500 grams at birth, requiring retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) screening examination as indicated by AAP guidelines.
2. Recruitment:
Patients will be
The demographic of the cardiac surgery population has progressively changed such that there is a greater proportion of older patients and females who by virtue of their co-morbidities and smaller average size have an increased risk of receiving blood products during and after surgery.
Randomization
At the end of surgery, the anesthesiologist will open a sealed envelope labeled with software-generated randomized numbers to assign the patients, who will be allocated in a 1:1 ratio from nonstratified blocks of four patients, to one of two groups to emerge from anesthesia with the
AIMS
The primary aim of the study is to test the hypothesis that tumour related disease free interval and overall survival are equivalent regardless whether patients receive laparoscopic colon resection (LCR) or open colon resection (OCR) at three and five years post operatively. The secondary aims
Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study is to compare the efficacy and outcomes of standard clinic management and home management of INR in patients over 14 years of age with CHD and to determine which method of INR management results in a greater time in therapeutic range, less INR variability
Introduction
Barrett's oesophagus is a common complication in patients suffering from gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GERD). By means of chronic acid exposure the squamous epithelium of the oesophagus turns into a specialised columnar epithelium (SCE) with goblet cells. This histological change
Graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) represents a major cause for morbidity and mortality in patients who underwent haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) [1]. In the gastrointestinal tract as one of the main target organs of GvHD diagnosis may be difficult because of many similar presenting