Apparent Life Threatening Events in Infants

Completed

Conditions studied: ALTE

In brief

Infants sometimes experience sudden symptoms such as breathing irregularities or limpness that frighten parents and prompt them to seek emergency medical care. While few of these episodes are truly life-threatening and require hospital admission, some parents may have been so frightened that they will resist returning home from the emergency department with their baby even if the objective risk is extremely small. Study subjects (parents of infants with an apparent life threatening event) will be contacted and interviewed. Investigators want to learn whether or not study subjects would accept returning home after a brief period of observation in the emergency department if the physician determines that it is safe to do so.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02779062

Run by

NYU Langone Health

People needed

22

Starts

2015-03-01

Expected to finish

2016-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-02-06

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adult parents of an infant with an ALTE event

You may not qualify if…

• Unwilling to sign informed consent document

Where it is running

• Winthrop University Hospital — Mineola, New York, United States

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