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Lufwanyama Neonatal Survival Project

NCT00518856 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3559

Last updated 2011-03-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

We seek to determine whether we can reduce day 28 mortality in Zambian newborns by training traditional birth attendants a modified version of the neonatal resuscitation protocol (NRP) and by improving their abiltiy to identify sepsis and initiate antibiotics in the field.

Conditions

  • Mortality

Interventions

OTHER

Neonatal resuscitation protocol

training in neonatal resuscitation and sepsis identification early treatment

OTHER

Standard of care

continued with current standard of care for birth attendants

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Tufts University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Boston University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Christopher J Gill, MD MS · Boston Universtiy

  • Grace Mazala, RN · Lufwanyama District Health Management Team

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-09-30
Primary Completion
2008-09-30
Completion
2009-07-31

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