NCT00962754

Fluid Balance Study in Sick Neonates

Reliability and Utility of Fluid Balance Charting in Neonates Admitted to the Pediatric Ward.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 170 (actual)
• Sponsor: Princess Amalia Children's Clinic · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 28 Days
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if routinely recording fluid balance in sick neonates admitted to the pediatric ward is reliable and useful. The investigators' hypothesis is that it is not useful and reliable.

Detailed description

Fluid balance charts are commonly used, in the Netherlands, to assess patient fluid volume status. Some disadvantages of recording fluid intake and output are that it is time-consuming and complex. If it would give reliable and accurate information about the fluid volume status there would be a good reason for all this effort. In the few researches that have investigated this subject a low correlation has been found between the fluid balance and the weight changes of an adult patient. Own experience gives reasons to doubt about the reliability of the fluid balance in children, not rarely there is a discrepancy between the fluid balance and the weight measurement. We are interested in the relevance of recording fluid balance in neonates.

Conditions

• Very Low Birth Weight Infant

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	physician no insight in the fluid balance chart	physician had no insight in the fluid balance chart during the first 3 days of admission of the patient when the balance is recorded

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-06-01
• Primary completion: 2010-03-01
• Completion: 2010-03-01
• First posted: 2009-08-20
• Last updated: 2014-05-07
• Results posted: 2014-05-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands