Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00973687
Dexamethasone Tolerability in the Treatment of Acute Asthma in Children
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 430 (actual)
- Sponsor
- IWK Health Centre · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 2 Years – 14 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to assess whether smaller volumes of oral dexamethasone result in better tolerability, specifically less vomiting, in pediatric patients during an acute asthma exacerbation.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DRUG | Ora Sweet | A pharmaceutical suspending vehicle and flavouring agent added to the dexamethasone. All arms received the same amount of dexamethasone based on the child's weight, only in different volumes. |
| DRUG | Dexamethasone |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2004-09-01
- Primary completion
- 2006-04-01
- Completion
- 2006-05-01
- First posted
- 2009-09-09
- Last updated
- 2015-08-26
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Canada
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00973687. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.