Intravenous Artesunate and Malaria

University of Khartoum80 enrolled

Overview

Intravenous artesunate is egual to quinine in the treatment of severe malaria

Intravenous artesunate is egual to quinine in the treatment of severe malaria in the form of fever clearance time and parasite clearance time

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

intravenous artesunate 80 mg/kg initially then after 8 hours then daily

quinine infusion 80 mg/kg every 8 hours till the patient can take orally

Sex: ALLMin age: 1 YearMax age: 80 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: severe P.falciparum malaria- Exclusion Criteria: mixed infection Pregnant women -

Kassala

Kassala, Kassala, Sudan

RECRUITING

clearance of the parasite and fever

To compare the parasite clearance time and fever clearance time between the two groups

Time frame: 3 days

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