Holter Monitoring of Critically-ill Childern in PICU at Sohag University Hospital

Sohag University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Critically Ill Childern in PICU

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05312333

Soh-Med-22-03-12

Details and patient eligibility

About

Holter Monitoring is a way to continuously check the electrical activity of the heart .

Continuous ECG recording show to be one of the most effective noninvasive clinical tools in the diagnosis of cardiac symptoms prognostic assessment and in the evaluation of many cardiac therapeutic intervention.

The clinical utility of ambulatory ECG lies in its ability to examine continuously a patient over an extended period of time, permitting patient ambulatory activity and facilitating the diurnal electrocardiographic examination of a patient in a changing environmental conditions (both physical and psychological) .

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 month to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• 1- children admitted to pediatric department as in :
• Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
• Pediatric critical care unit (PCCU).
• Emergency room (ER). 2- Age from 1 month- 12 years. 3- Critical ill child fulfill these criteria:
• Persistent convulsions.
• Abnormal GCS
• Haemodynamic instability
• Foreign body inhalation
• Sever cardiac problem
• Irregular breathing
• DKA
• Others

Exclusion Criteria:1-Neonates 2-End-stage or those with end-organ failure . 3-Whom GCS is below 6. 4-Whom done cardiac catheterization for any purpose . 5-Previously done Holter. 6-Multiple traumatized patient.

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

critically-ill childern