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Active, not recruitingNCT03478566Updated Apr 11, 2023

Transcutaneous CO2 Monitoring at Home for Children With Neuromuscular Disease

An interventional study of Transcutaneous CO2 monitoring in Sleep Disorder; Breathing-Related, Central Apnea and Neuromuscular Diseases, sponsored by The Hospital for Sick Children. Active, not recruiting at 1 site in Canada. Open to participants aged Up to 18 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-04-11.

Sponsored by The Hospital for Sick Children · Not applicable, Interventional, and Diagnostic

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
39
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
Up to 18 Years
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-12

Among 37 studies in Sleep Wake Disorders with a site in Canada — 15 open to participants now, 17 under way, 3 of them phase 3. Sleep Wake Disorders · Canada.

Enrollment
18th of 28
39 · median 74
Started
2018
with 3 others
No phase
12 of 37
8 open now
Primary completion
2021-12
later than 0 of 16 live
Registered
17th of 37
by date
Lead sponsor
3 of 37
The Hospital for Sick Children

Among the 37 studies in Sleep Wake Disorders with a site in Canada, this one is the 18th largest by enrollment of the 28 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 4 that started in 2018, is one of 12 with no phase, reaches primary completion later than 0 of the 16 other live ones, and was the 17th registered.

Sleep Wake Disorders

747 studies on the registry are indexed under Sleep Wake Disorders; 182 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 39 is below the median of 66 across 531 interventional studies indexed under Sleep Wake Disorders.

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Open to participants now

15 of the 37 studies in Sleep Wake Disorders with a site in Canada are open now.

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Who these studies take

Of the 109 Sleep Wake Disorders studies recruiting now, 36 (33%) set no upper age limit and 53 (49%) stop at 75 or younger; 22 take children under 18; 24 take healthy volunteers.

This study: Up to 18 Years · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

There is an unmet demand for the evaluation of nocturnal hypoventilation in children with NMD. An ambulatory screening tool that can reliably facilitate timely diagnosis and treatment in these children would be invaluable. If an ambulatory, at home, tcCO2 monitoring device is shown to be diagnostically accurate, sleep physicians would be able to triage children on existing waiting lists and optimize screening of nocturnal hypoventilation as recommended by international guidelines.

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Conditions studied

  • Sleep Disorder; Breathing-Related
  • Central Apnea
  • Neuromuscular Diseases
  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Up to 18 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • children with a confirmed diagnosis of NMD that meet criteria for evaluating SDB as per international recommendations
  • lives within the greater Toronto area.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • known diagnosis of nocturnal hypoventilation
  • current ventilatory support
  • physician diagnosis of active upper respiratory tract infection (fever, increased cough, rhinorrhea, increased nasal congestion, sore throat, headache, malaise and/or sneezing).
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Diagnostic
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
39 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Transcutaneous CO2 monitoring

    Device: Transcutaneous CO2 monitoring

Interventions

  • DeviceTranscutaneous CO2 monitoring

    The aim is to assess the accuracy of ambulatory, at home, transcutaneous CO2 monitoring in pediatric Neuromuscular Disease (NMD).

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Sensitivity and specificity of ambulatory, at home, transcutaneous CO2 (tcCO2) monitoring to diagnose nocturnal hypoventilation as compared to the gold standard, end tidal CO2 conducted during polysomnogram (PSG).

    Time frame: 9 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. a) Agreement of tcCO2 monitoring when worn in the ambulatory, at home, setting compared to tcCO2 recorded during a PSG in a hospital based sleep laboratory for diagnosis of nocturnal hypoventilation.

    b) Correlation of the pre and post sleep capillary blood gas results with end tidal CO2 (etCO2) and tcCO2 recordings during PSG.

    Time frame: 9 months

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Study locations

1 site
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Ran from Oct 2018 to primary completion in Dec 2021, 38 months.

Of 208 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Sleep Wake Disorders, half reached primary completion within 21 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 7 and three quarters within 40. This study's 38 months is above that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 243 studies reached it within 19 months; a quarter within 6 and three quarters within 37.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Mar 20, 2018
First posted
Mar 27, 2018
StartActual
Oct 1, 2018
Primary completionActual
Dec 31, 2021
CompletionEst.
Sep 1, 2023
Last update
Apr 11, 2023
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 11, 2023, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03478566
Responsible party
Reshma Amin (Staff Physician, The Hospital for Sick Children) — Principal investigator
First posted
Mar 27, 2018
Start date
Oct 1, 2018
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2021
Completion
Sep 1, 2023 (estimated)
Last update
Apr 11, 2023

Study contacts

Reshma Amin, MD
principal investigator · Staff Physician

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
Yes
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