NCT03085420

Cardiac Arrhythmias and Dysfunction in the Pediatric Burn Patient

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: Shriners Hospitals for Children · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to collect information about how often an abnormal heart beat happens in children who have been burned.

Detailed description

The investigators hope to learn the following: * If heart arrhythmias are more common in children with a large burn injury than in children with a small burn injury. * The difference in development of a heart arrhythmia after a large burn injury by comparing information from children with large burns who do and do not develop a heart arrhythmia. * A better understanding of the length of a hospital stay, the number of operations, and the number of care complications in patients with heart arrhythmias after a burn injury.

Conditions

• Cardiac Dysfunction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Echocardiogram	A baseline Echocardiogram test (ECHO) will be done one week from admission and monthly (+/- 1 week) or as ordered by a cardiologist.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-05-03
• Primary completion: 2018-10-21
• Completion: 2018-10-21
• First posted: 2017-03-21
• Last updated: 2018-11-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States