Evaluation of the Tyto Thermometer When Used in Clinical Care Setting

March 1, 2018 updated by: Tyto Care Ltd

Patients who present to the Emergency Department will be evaluated for eligibility to the study. Those meeting all the inclusion criteria and none of the exclusion criteria will undergo an informed consent process and will sign a written consent. Within each age group both afebrile and febrile patients will be represented.

The patients will be divided into 3 study groups by age:

Group 1: up to 1 year Group 2: 1 to 5 years Group 3: older than 5 years

The following temperature measurements will be taken:

  1. Three temperature measurements using the Tyto thermometer
  2. Temperature measurement using the standard of care
  3. Three temperature measurements using the predicate device

Study Overview

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

124

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

      • Petah Tikva, Israel
        • Recruiting
        • Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel
        • Contact:

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Male or female, of any age
  2. Subject or Parent/Guardian: able to communicate with study personnel;
  3. Subject or Parent/Guardian: able to understand the nature of the study and provide written informed consent
  4. Subject or Parent/Guardian willing to comply with study procedures

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Cognitive impairment, history of dementia, psychiatric disorders, mental disorders or PDD.
  2. Subject or legal guardian unwilling to sign informed consent form
  3. Those with signs or recent history of inflammation or infection of the forehead or at the Reference Clinical Test site (site of temperature measurement in any one of the devices used).
  4. Subjects currently using cooling blankets, ice on their forehead or fans.
  5. Subjects receiving treatment with antipyretics, barbiturates, antipsychotics for the past 3 hours.
  6. Subjects receiving current systemic treatment with thyroid preparations, corticosteroids or underwent immunizations during the past 7 days.
  7. Subjects with documented illicit drug use or alcoholic intoxication
  8. Those participating in a clinical trial of an investigational medicinal product
  9. Carriers of multi drug resistant bacteria
  10. Pregnancy
  11. CTAS score of 1-2

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Other: Tyto Thermometer, SoC Thermometer, Predicate IR Th

All the study participants undergo temperature measurements with:

  1. Tyto Thermometer
  2. Standard of Care thermometer
  3. Predicate IR thermometer
Temperature measurements using the Tyto thermometer, the standard of care thermometer and the predicate thermometer

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Body temperature measurement
Time Frame: a period of no more than 12 minutes
a period of no more than 12 minutes

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Yehezkel Waisman, Prof., Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

January 24, 2018

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

June 24, 2018

Study Completion (Anticipated)

June 24, 2018

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

February 14, 2018

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 1, 2018

First Posted (Actual)

March 2, 2018

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 2, 2018

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 1, 2018

Last Verified

February 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 790-00038

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

No

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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