Capillary Refill for Assessment of Dehydration

Completed

Conditions studied: Dehydration in Children

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03670394

Run by

Oregon Health and Science University

People needed

178

Starts

2018-09-10

Expected to finish

2020-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-04-17

Who can join

Age: 1 and older, up to 10. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

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

You may not qualify if…

• 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.

Where it is running

• OHSU — Portland, Oregon, United States

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