NCT01664507

The Effect and Safety of Low Dose Nebulized Epinephrine in Croup

The Effect and Safety of Low Dose Nebulized Epinephrine in the Treatment of Croup

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 84 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Seoul National University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months – 5 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Croup is common illness presenting emergency department with dyspnea. The main treatment for croup is nebulized L-epinephrine and steroid. The study for the dose of nebulized L-epinephrine is restricted that the study of comparision between racemic epinephrine and L-epinephrine. The investigators conducted this study to compare the effectiveness of low dose L-epinephrine with conventional dose L-epinephrine.

Conditions

• Croup
• Epinephrine, Administration, Inhalation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	conventional dose epinephrine	conventional dose epinephrine : 0.5mg/kg + 0.9% normal saline
DRUG	low dose epinephrine	low dose epineprhine : 0.1mg/kg + 0.9% normal saline

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2018-08-01
• Completion: 2018-08-01
• First posted: 2012-08-14
• Last updated: 2018-01-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea