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ICU Kids' height measured with tape and calipers in new study

NCT ID NCT03913247

Knowledge-focused Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon Source: ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026

Summary

This study looked at different ways to estimate the height of children in the pediatric intensive care unit (ICU). Since standard height measurement is often impossible for sick kids, researchers tested methods using a measuring tape and caliper on 477 children. They compared these estimates to the gold-standard WHO method done after the ICU stay. The goal was to find a reliable technique that helps with nutrition and medication dosing.

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What this could lead to
If successful, this could lead to a reliable, practical method for measuring children's height in intensive care, improving nutrition and drug dosing.
What could go wrong
This is a completed observational study, so it won't test a new treatment. The methods may not be accurate enough for all children or settings.

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Study facts

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Participants

477 people

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Started

Nov 2019

Finished

Dec 2022

Lead sponsor

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Who can take part

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Who is studied

patients in pediatric intensive care unit

Ages

28 days to 18 years

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

Not accepted

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Inclusion Criteria: * Children aged from 28 days to 18 years old. * Admitted in pediatric intensive care unit with a resuscitation situation (at least one system failure including respiratory and/or hemodynamic and/or neurological). * Children whose size was not measurable, at the time of the admission in pediatric intensive care unit according to WHO standards. * Patient affiliated to a social security system Exclusion Criteria: * No expected evolution to a clinical state allowing the size measure according to the WHO standards according to age. * Stature growth greater (defined by WHO growth velocity scale according to age and sex) than 5% before the expected delay allowing the size measure using the WHO standards according to age * Children with skeleton malformation, dwarfism, abnormal limb. * Expected death before the end of the stay in pediatric intensive care unit * Parents or patients able to answer, refusing to participate to the study

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Pediatric intensive care unit

Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Haute école de santé - HES-SO Genève

    Geneva, Switzerland

  • Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant

    Bron, 69677, France

  • Service de réanimation et de surveillance continue pédiatrique CHRU de Lille

    Lille, 59000, France

  • Service de réanimation pédiatrique CHU La Timone AP-HM

    Marseille, 13005, France

  • Service de réanimation pédiatrique Centre hospitalier universitaire de Bordeaux

    Bordeaux, 33000, France

  • Service de réanimation pédiatrique Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes

    Nantes, 44093, France

  • Service de réanimation pédiatrique Hôpital Reine Fabiola Hôpital Publique

    Brussels, 1020, Belgium

  • Service de réanimation pédiatrique Hôpital cardiologique Louis Pradel

    Bron, 69677, France

  • Service de réanimation pédiatrique Hôpital de l'hôtel dieu de France

    Beirut, Lebanon

  • Service de réanimation pédiatrique Rue Du Morvan (CHRU NANCY - HOPITAUX DE BRABOIS)

    Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, 54500, France

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