Hypoglycemia at Initiation of Pump Therapy in Children With Type 1 Diabetes

St. Justine's Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Type 1 Diabetes

Treatments: Other: Observation of hypoglycemias frequency 3 days before and after pump initiation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01840358

HSJ-3638

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if patients have more hypoglycemic episodes the first 3 days following pump start compared to their usual number of hypoglycemias with our actual pump initiation protocol.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with type 1 diabetes with follow-up at the CHU Sainte-Justine
• Patient about to start insulin pump therapy at the CHU Sainte-Justine
• Last HbA1c between 7.2 and 9.7%
• Informed and signed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Type 1 diabetes diagnosed less than 1 year ago WITH total daily dose of insulin < 0.5U/kg/day
• Home of the patient at more than 50km of the CHU Sainte-Justine
• Refusal to consent

Trial design

30 participants in 1 patient group

Patients starting pump therapy

Other group

Treatment:

Other: Observation of hypoglycemias frequency 3 days before and after pump initiation