Capillary Refill for Assessment of Dehydration

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dehydration in Children

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Capillary Refill

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03670394

Dehydration Assessment

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 178 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 months to 10 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All children with chief complaint of diarrhea, emesis, nausea, abdominal pain

Exclusion criteria

• Any child with chronic cardiac or pulm disease, raynauds syndrome, bilateral upper extremity trauma, previously enrolled in the study, already received IVF in the previous 48hrs, surgery within 1week, osteogenesis imperfecta.