NCT03670394

Capillary Refill for Assessment of Dehydration

Capillary Refill to Detect Dehydration in Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 178 (actual)
• Sponsor: Oregon Health and Science University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

Capillary refill is used clinically to assess multiple things in children. This is a prospective observational study of the correlation between capillary refill time and degree of dehydration in children seen in a pediatric ED.

Detailed description

All patient presenting to the pediatric ER at OHSU less than 10 years are eligible to be enrolled if being seen for a condition putting them at risk for dehydration including emesis, diarrhea, etc. Children will have their capillary refill time measured and then sent home with a digital scale to track their weight. This will serve as the standard for calculating percent dehydration. When a patient has reached a stable weight at 1 week we will assume this is their healthy weight. There is no intervention in the study.

Conditions

• Dehydration in Children

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Capillary Refill	We are measuring capillary refill to assess it's correlation with dehydration in children

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-09-10
• Primary completion: 2020-04-01
• Completion: 2020-04-01
• First posted: 2018-09-13
• Last updated: 2020-04-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States