2,000
Participants
Start Date
October 31, 1999
Primary Completion Date
March 31, 2007
Study Completion Date
July 31, 2016
Caffeine citrate injection
"Loading dose: 20 mg/kg administered over at least 30 minutes via IV infusion or over at least 10 minutes via slow IV injection.~Daily maintenance dose (to commence at least 24 hours after loading dose): 5 mg/kg, administered over at least 10 minutes via IV infusion, or over at least 5 minutes via slow IV injection. Maintenance dose to be adjusted for body weight every 7 days. If indicated, maintenance dose may be increased to a maximum of 10 mg/kg. May be given orally once full enteral feeds are established.~Duration of treatment: discontinue after infant has tolerated at least 5 consecutive days without positive pressure support AND when the infant is judged by the attending clinician to be no longer a candidate for methylxanthine therapy."
University Hospitals of Geneve, Geneva
Canberra Hospital, Canberra
Mercy Hospital for Women, Melbourne
Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne
Women's & Children's Hospital, Adelaide
Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn
Meir General Hospital, Kfar Saba
Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
Soroka University Medical Center, Beersheba
Foothills Hospital, Calgary
Children's & Women's Health Centre of BC, Vancouver
Victoria General Hospital, Victoria
St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg
Moncton Hospital, Moncton
McMaster University, Hamilton
Kingston General Hospital, Kingston
Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Science Centre, Toronto
Windsor Regional Hospital, Windsor
Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke
Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Quebec, Québec
University of Tuebingen, Tübingen
Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot
University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht
Academisch Medisch Centrum, Amsterdam
Astrid Lindgren's Children's Hospital, Stockholm
University Children's Hospital Basel, Basel
University of Zurich, Zurich
Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast
South Cleveland Hospital, Middlesbrough
Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
OTHER_GOV
National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia
OTHER
McMaster University
OTHER