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Family Assisted Severe Febrile Illness Therapy for Critically-ill Kenyan Children

NCT03513861 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 182

Last updated 2018-05-02

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Summary

The purpose of this pilot study is to improve inpatient monitoring of severely-ill children admitted to the hospital in low resource settings at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. Given the high ratio of patients to medical staff in these settings, the lack of reliable patient monitoring tools, and the high rate of early inpatient mortality, we will prospectively train parents as monitoring aids of their hospitalized children. Early recognition and intervention in critical illness is important to avoid (further) organ failure. Parents will be taught how to assess their child's mental status, work of breathing and capillary refill time which will inform a 3-point severity of illness scale. The severity of illness will be conveyed by the parents to the medical staff via color-coded flag system. The goal is to increase the healthcare provider patient reassessment rate according to patients' level of severity to assist in early recognition and treatment of patients' deterioration.

Conditions

  • Critical Illness
  • Febrile Illness

Interventions

OTHER

FASTER Assessment tool

The FASTER assessment tool consists of monitoring mental status, respiratory distress and capillary refill time by parents of children admitted to the hospital with febrile illness. Parents in the intervention group are asked to monitor their child hourly with the FASTER tool and signal severity of illness to the healthcare team via color coded flag system. Number of healthcare provider - patient reassessments will be compared in intervention and control group.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Seattle Children's Hospital

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Months
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-05-08
Primary Completion
2017-11-30
Completion
2017-11-30

Countries

  • Kenya

Study Locations

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