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:
2025-12-24 @ 2:39 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 2:39 PM
NCT ID:
NCT01396759
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
Children of either sex, aged 0-4 years, with severe/very severe pneumonia (per WHO guidelines) and hypoxaemia (SpO2 \< 90%) will be included in our study in the ARI Unit of the Longer Stay Ward (LSW), High Dependency Unit HDU, and ICU unit of Dhaka Hospital of ICDDR,B.
Exclusion Criteria:
Children with uncorrected cyanotic CHD, hypercapnoea (PCO2 \> 65 mm of Hg), status asthmaticus and upper-airway obstruction, and those for whom inform consent can't be secured from their parents/ care-givers. Children with features (any two of three criteria given below) of "treatment failure" on admission (before enrollment into the study) will also be excluded from the study. Arterial blood gas analysis will be performed to check the exclusion criteria
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Maximum Age:
5 Years
Study:
NCT01396759
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01396759