Point of Care Device Use in the Pediatric Emergency Department

Yale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Seizure; Dehydration; Hyperglycemia; Gastroenteritis

Treatments: Device: Point of Care Device; i-Stat Analyzer

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT00285285

25448

Details and patient eligibility

About

To compare the effect of "point-of-care" (POC) analysis of blood work with traditional laboratory methods on length of stay in a pediatric emergency department (PED).

Full description

This study was a prospective, randomized controlled study of patients requiring blood work that a POC device was capable of performing. Length of time spent at various timepoints were prospectively recorded by a dedicated research assistant after randomization.

Sex: All

Ages: 1 day to 21 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinically requiring bloodwork capable by the POC device

Exclusion criteria

• Requiring other bloodwork such as medication levels, WBC

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)