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Revisiting Survey Investigating Why Patients Are Not Receiving Home Anti-convulsant Medication Prior to Surgery/or Procedure Involving General Anesthesia

NCT01897974 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2014-08-27

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Summary

Children with seizure disorder face unique challenges during the perioperative period. Fasting, sleep-deprivation, and missed doses of medications while patients are required to have nothing per mouth (NPO) are a few factors that decrease the seizure threshold. The incidence of seizures in this population is unknown but correlated with patient's underlying condition and missed doses of anti-convulsant. Previous work has determined this is not a unique problem.

The investigators initially found compliance extremely poor at 60%. The investigators have made improvement to about 80% compliance through various interventions: education of nursing, availability of anticonvulsant intravenous dosing alternatives, and re-wording the hospital NPO policy. The investigators feel that a new, more focused, survey will help identify, perioperative reasons for non-compliance on part of the parents. This information will be utilized to guide further interventions aimed at improving compliance.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Survey

Families complete survey to measure medication compliance.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Vidya Raman

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-06-30
Primary Completion
2014-06-30
Completion
2014-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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