Clinical trials: Pediatric Intensive Care
Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Double Blinded Randomized Control Trial of Types of IVF in Children With DKA
Objectives: Intravenous (IV) fluid administration is a fundamental component of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) treatment. Normal saline (NS), the most common IV fluid used in DKA management, contains more chloride than human blood.
- Trial name
- NCT03066440
- Testing
- Normal saline, Lactated Ringers
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 53 people
- Sponsor
- State University of New York at Buffalo
Child, Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness
Clinical Effectiveness of the "PICU Up!" Multifaceted Early Mobility Intervention for Critically Ill Children
While mortality in U.S. pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) is improving, surviving children frequently develop persistent physical, cognitive, and psychological impairments.
- Conditions
- Child, Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness, Critical Illness, Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcer
- Trial name
- PICU Up! (NCT04989790)
- Testing
- PICU Up!
- Where
- 11 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,470 people
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
High Flow Nasal Cannula
HFNC Flow Titration and Effort of Breathing in the PICU
High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) is a method of non-invasive respiratory support used to decrease the effort of breathing (EOB) in patients with a wide variety of respiratory diseases in the pediatric intensive care unit.
- Trial name
- HFNCandEOB (NCT02793674)
- Testing
- Fisher & Paykel high flow nasal cannula, Vapotherm high flow nasal cannula
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 21 people
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Critical Illness
Ultrasound Guided Vascular Access in Pediatric Intensive Care Patients
The purpose of this study is to see how fast and accurate two different techniques used by physicians to insert catheters in children are.
- Trial name
- NCT00207883
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 212 people
- Sponsor
- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta