Cycled Phototherapy: A Safer Effective Treatment for Small Premature Infants?
Status unconfirmed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Hyperbilirubinemia, Premature Newborns, Extremely Low Birth Weight
In brief
Cycled (intermittent) phototherapy will be compared to continuous (uninterrupted) phototherapy in the treatment of hyperbilirubinemia (newborn jaundice) in extremely low birth weight newborns in a pilot randomized controlled trial. Hypothesis: Cycled phototherapy (PT) will provide the same benefits as continuous phototherapy in extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants without the risks that have been associated with continuous phototherapy.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01944696
- Run by
- The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
- People needed
- 210
- Starts
- 2014-03-01
- Expected to finish
- 2018-01-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2016-06-16
Who can join
Age: any, up to 0. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- birth weight 401-1000 grams
- age less than or equal to 24 hours
You may not qualify if…
- hemolytic disease
- major anomaly
- overt nonbacterial infection
Where it is running
- University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine - UAB Hospital — Birmingham, Alabama, United States (enrolling)
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine - Good Samaritan Hospital — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States (enrolling)
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School - Clements University Hospital — Dallas, Texas, United States (enrolling)
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Memorial Hermann-TMC-NICU — Houston, Texas, United States (enrolling)
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio - University Hospital — San Antonio, Texas, United States (enrolling)
- Stanford University - Lucile Packard Children's Hospital — Palo Alto, California, United States
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