The FEAST Clinical Trial

Embargoed until 21:00 BST Thursday 26 May 2011.

This is a film about the FEAST Clinical Trial, a groundbreaking clinical trial funded by the Medical Research Council, London, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It showed that an emergency treatment called Fluid Resuscitation, which is used worldwide, does not save lives when used for African children suffereing from shock and severe infections. The trial found that giving children fluids slowly, rather than rapid fluid resuscitation, is safer and more effective in aiding recovery. These findings challenge current WHO guidelines on how best to provide fluids to children in Africa with fever and shock caused by malaria, sepsis and other infections. Film by Tom Gibb tomfilms10@gmail.com

Category:

Education

Tags:

• FEAST Clinical Trial
• Medical Research Council
• Clinical Trials Unit
• Imperial College
• KEMRI
• Wellcome Trust
• Kilifi.

[dehydrogenated]

07:58 - 08:03 - the conclusion of every piece of research, ever.

[garethdhardy]

A courageous and important piece of research.

[sanduleak202]

As mentioned is is important that this message not be misunderstood.. Shock arising from hypovolaemia as in the case of diarrhoea is treated differently and DOES still require fluid bolus. It is however now great to have evidence that the shocked critically ill child with malaria and septicaemia should be treated differently and may be harmed by bolus fluid resuscitation. Well done to the trial.

[TheGeorgeInstitute]

Great video this one – supports our need to do more of these! Well done FEAST!

[MESHAkENYA]

Never have developments in medicine become vital than now, this is information that needs to be at the finger tips of health care providers espcially at the dispensary level, where most children receive first care treatment before any referals.

[einkyfinky]

Amazing work. We need more from you.

[subira]

Great findings. Medicine continue to evolve through new findings.

Carefully done research, is vital (a challenge to many researches done in poor settings where a lot of data is forged)

Congratulations to "FEAST" team!