Revisiting Survey Investigating Why Patients Are Not Receiving Home Anti-convulsant Medication Prior to Surgery/or Procedure Involving General Anesthesia

Completed

• Conditions: Seizures
• Interventions: Other: Survey

• Registration Number: NCT01897974
• Lead Sponsor: Vidya Raman

Brief Summary

Children with seizure disorder face unique challenges during the perioperative period. Fasting, sleep-deprivation, and missed doses of medications while patients are required to have nothing per mouth (NPO) are a few factors that decrease the seizure threshold. The incidence of seizures in this population is unknown but correlated with patient's underlying condition and missed doses of anti-convulsant. Previous work has determined this is not a unique problem.

The investigators initially found compliance extremely poor at 60%. The investigators have made improvement to about 80% compliance through various interventions: education of nursing, availability of anticonvulsant intravenous dosing alternatives, and re-wording the hospital NPO policy. The investigators feel that a new, more focused, survey will help identify, perioperative reasons for non-compliance on part of the parents. This information will be utilized to guide further interventions aimed at improving compliance.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-06
• Study First Submitted: 2013-06-26
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-07-10
• Study First Posted: 2013-07-12
• Primary Completion: 2014-06
• Study Completion: 2014-06
• Status Verified: 2014-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-08-26
• Last Update Posted: 2014-08-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 300

Inclusion Criteria

• We plan to include all children 0-18 years of age on anticonvulsant(s) for seizure disorder.

Exclusion Criteria

• None.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Seizure disorder	Survey	Patients that are on medications for seizure disorder.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Anticonvuslant compliance	1 Day	Patients/parents will be asked to complete a questionnaire about whether they took their anticonvulsant the morning of surgery and if not, why not.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Nationwide Children's Hospital; 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States