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Last refreshed on: 1 April 2024
Main ID:  NCT02455687
Date of registration: 25/05/2015
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Hamad Medical Corporation
Public title: Two Doses of the Intravenous Magnesium Sulfate Versus the Standard Single Dose ,With/ Without the Nebulized Budesonide For the Management of the Severe Asthma Exacerbation in the Emergency Room; A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Scientific title: Two Doses of the Intravenous Magnesium Sulfate Versus the Standard Single Dose With/Without Nebulized Budesonide for the Emergency Management of the Severe Asthma. A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Date of first enrolment: June 2015
Target sample size: 240
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02455687
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor).  
Phase:  Phase 3
Countries of recruitment
Qatar
Contacts
Name:     Khalid Alansari, MD
Address: 
Telephone: +974-55336166
Email: kalansari@hamad.qa
Affiliation: 
Name:     Khalid Alansari, MD
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Sidra Medicine
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Children 2-14 years of age.

2. Known to have bronchial asthma.

3. Presenting in severe asthma exacerbation

4. Asthma severity score 8 or higher according to PRAM asthma severity .

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Prematurity <34 weeks of gestation.

2. Critically ill children requiring immediate intubation or ICU admission.

3. Transfers from other institutions.

4. Adverse drug reaction or allergy to budesonide,salbutamol,ipratropium bromide,
prednisone, prednisolone, methylprednisolone, or magnesium sulfate.

5. History of neuromuscular disease, cardiac disease, renal disease, liver disease.

6. Underlying chronic lung disease.

7. Radiographic evidence of pneumonia or lung collapse .

8. Hemodynamic instability.

9. Instrumented airway or Tracheotomy.

10. Colostomy or ileostomy.

11. Malabsorption disorder.

12. Known vitamin D deficiency.

13. Receiving Milk of Magnesium for Constipation

14. Chronic diarrhea (duration for 2 weeks)

15. Diuretics use.

16. Immunodeficiency.



Age minimum: 2 Years
Age maximum: 14 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Bronchial Asthma
Intervention(s)
Drug: Nebulized normal saline
Drug: Std-dose iv MgSO4
Drug: Hi-dose iv MgSO4
Drug: Nebulized budesonide
Primary Outcome(s)
Time to medical readiness for discharge. [Time Frame: 3 years]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Comparison of clinical response in severity score (%) [Time Frame: 3 years]
Frequency of need for revisit and readmission to pediatric emergency center for same diagnosis(%) [Time Frame: 3 years]
Overall length of the hospital stay (hours/days) . [Time Frame: 3 years]
The rate of admission to pediatric intensive care unit (%) [Time Frame: 3 years]
Secondary ID(s)
1400046
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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