Treatment of Neonatal Jaundice With Filtered Sunlight Phototherapy: Safety and Efficacy in African Neonates

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

447

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

November 30, 2011

Primary Completion Date

September 30, 2013

Study Completion Date

September 30, 2013

Conditions
Jaundice, Neonatal
Interventions
DEVICE

Filtered-sunlight phototherapy

Infants will receive six hours per day of filtered-sunlight phototherapy for 1 to 10 days. The filtering will be done using window tinting film. Window tinting films by Solutia, Inc., and V-KOOL, Inc.

DEVICE

Conventional phototherapy

Infants will receive six hours per day of conventional phototherapy for 1 to 10 days.

Trial Locations (1)

Unknown

Island Maternity Hospital, Lagos

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Thrasher Research Fund

OTHER

lead

University of Minnesota

OTHER

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