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Comparison of different methods to induce sleep in pediatric electroencephalogram recording

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Performance of diagnostic medical procedures needs patient’s cooperation that is often refused by children. The EEG procedure is especially not well tolerated by children with developmental disa
Epilepsy
Electroencephalography
Melatonin
Sleep deprivation
Chloral hydrate
Sleep onset latency
Duration of sleep
Registration Number
TCTR20200204002
Lead Sponsor
The Ratchadapiseksompotch Fund (RA 62/064)
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
45
Inclusion Criteria

-Patients whom were consulted for EEG recording at King Chulalongkorn Memorial hospital
-Age between 1-5 years or older but do not co-operate

Exclusion Criteria

-History of allergy to chloral hydrate or melatonin patients
-Patients have current respiratory infection problems or abnormal
-respiratory signs and symptoms such as dyspnea which risk to
-respiratory insufficiency
-Alteration of consciousness patients
-Patients who can not follow the sleep deprivation protocol
children nor parents factors
-Enteral feeding contraindicated patients
-Patients who have clinically seizure during the EEG performance

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Compare the efficacy of melatonin versus melatonin and sleep deprivation versus chloral hydrate and 8 months time to sleep, duration of sleep
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Factors associated with sleep duration and sleep latency 8 months multivariate group comparison
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