Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 3:25 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 3:25 AM
NCT ID:
NCT01856205
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Children aged between 1 and 14 years who had clinically diagnosed encephalitis on the basis of history of fever that lasted less than 14 days, altered consciousness with or without a history of new onset seizures with CSF finding of white cell count less than 1000 cells/mm3 with no organisms on Gram stain and a CSF: plasma glucose ratio \> 40% admitted in Kanti Children's Hospital and BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Asexual Plasmodium falciparum parasites in blood
* Coma appears secondary to other systemic condition, eg hepatic failure, cardiac failure, toxins.
* Patients who have documented antibiotic treatment before admission and in whom partially treated bacterial meningitis appears more likely than encephalitis
* Children with simple febrile convulsions, defined as a single seizure lasting less than 15 minutes followed by full recovery of consciousness within 60 minutes.
* Pregnant or breastfeeding females
* Children with a GCS of 3/15, who were receiving artificial ventilation without signs of spontaneous respiration, and with absent oculocephalic reflex.
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
1 Year
Maximum Age:
14 Years
Study:
NCT01856205
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01856205