Ratio of Inferior Vena Cava and Aorta Diameter in Dehydrated Children

Seoul National University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Dehydration

Treatments: Device: Ultrasound; Drug: normal saline

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02203123

ultrasound_01

Details and patient eligibility

About

• There is no definite tool for measurement of dehydration in children
• Subjective clinical dehydration scale is considered as valuable scoring system, but it cannot be reliable among clinicians sometimes.
• Some authors found Inferior vena cava/Aorta ratio can be a objective marker for dehydration
• However, there is no evidence of correlation between clinical dehydration scale and inferior vena cava/aorta ratio
• We will observe correlation between clinical dehydration scale and inferior vena cava/aorta ratio and change of the ratio according to hydration with intravenous normal saline infusion.

Enrollment: 226 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 months to 15 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All children with dehydration who visit emergency department

Exclusion criteria

• congenital heart disease
• bronchopulmonary dysplasia
• renal disease
• liver disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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226 participants in 1 patient group

Ultrasound, inferior vena cava, aorta, normal saline

Other group

Treatment:

Drug: normal saline

Device: Ultrasound