Filtered Sunlight Phototherapy to Treat Significant Jaundice: Safety and Efficacy in Neonates
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 174
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Efficacy of Phototherapy
研究概览
简要总结
At present, much of sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria and other resource-limited countries, are without ready access to CPT, due to factors including the lack of PT devices, which are expensive and require consistent electric power to operate. NHB is a significant cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality, but preventable when appropriate treatment is initiated. We have shown that FS-PT is safe and efficacious for the treatment of mild-moderate NHB. The major goal of this study is to demonstrate that FS-PT is efficacious for the treatment of significant/severe NHB, generally defined as TB of ≥12-14mg/dL (but more specially as defined as needing phototherapy per American Academy of Pediatric 2004 guidelines). This arm was done at 1 site in Nigeria (in Ogbomoso). The rationale for conducting the study is that in Nigeria, and other countries that cannot afford effective commercial light devices and/or have no reliable electric power to operate them, filtered sunlight phototherapy might offer a safe and effective treatment for neonatal jaundice.
详细描述
Severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia (NHB) and its progression to kernicterus is a leading cause of deaths and disabilities among newborns in the developing world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa including Nigeria. Many infants live in villages/towns far from clinical facilities capable of providing conventional artificial blue light phototherapy (CPT) which is the standard treatment for NHB in the industrialized world. Hence, more babies succumb to this preventable tragedy principally on account of lack of electricity and/or available/affordable CPT.
To make treatment of NHB more readily available, we designed and tested a novel, yet simple, practical alternative device to deliver blue light PT in underserved areas from filtered sunlight. The investigators pilot study demonstrated that appropriately filtered sunlight phototherapy (FS-PT) not only offers safe and affordable treatment for infants with mild-moderate NHB, but is also no less efficacious than CPT. Other studies have shown faster decline at higher bilirubin (TB) levels and with higher irradiances. The next logical step to move this urgently needed and exciting therapy forward is to test FS-PT in infants with significant/severe NHB as defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) criteria for high-risk infants. In doing so, the investigators will potentially be preventing acute bilirubin encephalopathy (ABE) and kernicterus in many of these infants.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
盲法说明
None (Open Label)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- — 至 14 Days（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Subjects will be eligible to participate in the study if all of the following conditions exist:
- •At time of birth, infant is > 35 weeks gestation (or ≥ 2.2 kg if gestational age is not available.
- •Infant is < 14 days old at the time of enrollment.
- •Infant has an elevated TB defined as at the level recommended for high-risk infants per AAP guidelines or higher.
- •Parent or guardian has given consent for the infant to participate.
排除标准
- •Subjects will be excluded from enrollment in the study if any of the following conditions exist:
- •Infants with a condition requiring referral for treatment not available at the hospital study site.
- •Infants with a life-expectancy of < 24 hours at screening enrollment.
- •Infants requiring oxygen therapy unless that can be provided while under PT.
- •Infants clinically dehydrated or sunburned at the time of screening enrollment.
- •Infants with a temperature < 36.0 or > 37.5 degrees Centigrade that does not return to normothermia within 1 hour.
结局指标
主要结局
Efficacy of Phototherapy
时间窗: 2 to 10 days
For a given evaluable treatment day, the phototherapy treatment was deemed effective if that infant on that day had a decrease in serum bilirubin level or (if \<72hrs old) an rate of increase of less than 0.2 mg/dL/h. Therefore efficacy is reported as a percentage of the evaluable treatment days (i.e. number of effective evaluable treatment days divided by total number of evaluable treatment days).
Safety of Phototherapy
时间窗: 2 to 10 days
For a given treatment day, the phototherapy treatment was deemed safe if that infant on that day did not have to be withdrawn from treatment due to hypo- or hyperthermia, sunburn or dehydration. Therefore safety is reported as a percentage of the total treatment days (i.e. number of safe treatment days divided by total number of treatment days).
次要结局
未报告次要终点