Capillary Refill for Assessment of Dehydration

Dehydration in Children Clinical Trial

Official title:

Capillary Refill to Detect Dehydration in Children

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03670394
• Other study ID #: Dehydration Assessment
• Status: Completed
• Start date: September 10, 2018
• Est. completion date: April 1, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: April 2020
• Source: Oregon Health and Science University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Capillary refill is used clinically to assess multiple things in children. This is a prospective observational study of the correlation between capillary refill time and degree of dehydration in children seen in a pediatric ED.

Description:

All patient presenting to the pediatric ER at OHSU less than 10 years are eligible to be enrolled if being seen for a condition putting them at risk for dehydration including emesis, diarrhea, etc. Children will have their capillary refill time measured and then sent home with a digital scale to track their weight. This will serve as the standard for calculating percent dehydration. When a patient has reached a stable weight at 1 week we will assume this is their healthy weight. There is no intervention in the study.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 178
• Est. completion date: April 1, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: April 1, 2020
• Gender: All
• Age group: 6 Months to 10 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All children with chief complaint of diarrhea, emesis, nausea, abdominal pain

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any child with chronic cardiac or pulm disease, raynauds syndrome, bilateral upper extremity trauma, previously enrolled in the study, already received IVF in the previous 48hrs, surgery within 1week, osteogenesis imperfecta.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Dehydration
• Dehydration in Children

Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
• Capillary Refill
We are measuring capillary refill to assess it's correlation with dehydration in children

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	OHSU	Portland	Oregon

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Oregon Health and Science University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Capillary Refill time	Assessing correlation of the refill time and percent dehydration	1 week