Pilot Study to Evaluate a Method of Controlling High Blood Sugar in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Hyperglycemia
In brief
Recent studies of adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients have shown significantly decreased morbidity and mortality when blood sugar concentrations are closely controlled. The safety and efficacy of this type of blood sugar management has not been studied in the pediatric ICU population. Based on the current pediatric literature data as well as our extensive retrospective study, blood sugar concentrations have a potentially profound role to play among PICU patients. In preparation for a multi-center randomized control trial, we propose a prospective feasibility study to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of using an insulin delivery algorithm to manage blood sugar in the PICU. Our hypothesis for this feasibility trial is that uniformly monitoring and controlling blood glucose with a Discrete-Closed-Loop(DCL) insulin delivery algorithm will be an effective, safe, and consistent means of delivering insulin to manage glucose in the pediatric intensive care unit.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00240149
- Run by
- Stanford University
- People needed
- 0
- Starts
- 2005-10-01
- Expected to finish
- 2006-03-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2007-12-20
Who can join
Age: 1 and older, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
Where it is running
- Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital - PICU — Stanford, California, United States
- Stanford University School of Medicine — Stanford, California, United States
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