Sweetheart Study: Oral Glucose for Reducing Stress During Echocardiographic Assessment in Infants in the NICU

Phase 4 Completed 104 enrolled Children's & Women's Health Centre of British Columbia

RandomizedParallel-groupQuadruple-blindTreatment

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the effect of a 25% glucose solution given via a soother with or without facilitated tucking with a similarly administered water placebo (control condition) on infant stress responses during and immediately after a neonatologist performed ECHO (np-ECHO).

Timeline

Start: 2010-12
Primary completion: 2013-06
Completion: 2013-06

Publications

Lavoie PM, Stritzke A, Ting J, Jabr M, Jain A, Kwan E, Chakkarapani E, Brooks P, Brant R, McNamara PJ, Holsti L. A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Use of Oral Glucose with or without Gentle Facilitated Tucking of Infants during Neonatal Echocardiography. PLoS One. 2015 Oct 23;10(10):e0141015. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141015. eCollection 2015.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Comparator	Glucose	Unknown	0.5 ml	Oral
Comparator	Glucose	Unknown	1 ml	Oral

Indications

No indication recorded.