NCT03312452

The Incidence of IV Fluid Over-administration in Pediatric Dental Surgeries When Infusion Pumps Are Employed

The Role of Infusion Pumps in Preventing the Over-Administration of Intravenous Fluid in Pediatric Dental Surgeries

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 103 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Saskatchewan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A prospective, analyst-blinded, randomized control trial to assess the incidence of intravenous (IV) fluid over-administration in the setting of pediatric dental surgeries. Anesthetists will be randomized to either administer their IV fluid through an infusion pump or a gravity drip device.

Detailed description

In the perioperative setting, IV fluids are administered to mitigate the effects of preoperative fasting and sources of fluid loss that are unique to surgical intervention. Significant harms have been associated with the over-administration of IV fluid in pediatric patients. Infusion pumps have been shown to reduce medication administration errors in inpatients receiving continuous IV infusions. In contrast, laboratory experiments have demonstrated that gravity driven fluid delivery systems are influenced by numerous extrinsic factors. To date, no work has investigated the perioperative incidence of IV fluid over-administration in pediatric patients randomized either to infusion pumps (intervention) or gravity-fed IV systems (control).

Conditions

• Dental Caries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Hospira plum pump	The Hospira plum pump enables the clinician to program a specific volume of intravenous fluid and define a period of time over which to administer this fluid.
DEVICE	Gravity drip device	Study subjects assigned to this group will receive intravenous fluid via a gravity drip device during their surgery.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-09-01
• Primary completion: 2018-10-19
• Completion: 2018-10-19
• First posted: 2017-10-17
• Last updated: 2018-10-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada