Conditions: Vesicoureteral Reflux
Keywords: Midazolam VCUG Anxiety
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 44
Healthy volunteers: yes

Brief summary:
The purpose of this research is to validate the common administration of oral midazolam to children prior to voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG) to see if this will significantly decrease children's anxiety and make the experience less traumatic.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Both patients who are VCUG naive and patients who have had a previous VCUG are given oral midazolam prior to undergoing the VCUG. arm 2: Both patients who are VCUG naive and patients who have had a previous VCUG are given an oral placebo prior to undergoing the VCUG.

Interventions: intervention 1: midazolam intervention 2: placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Children are randomized to receive oral midazolam .5 mg/kg prior to undergoing VCUG intervention 2: Children are randomized to receive a placebo prior to undergoing VCUG

Protocol document: