NCT01017081

Chest Physiotherapy in Pediatrics Patients With Pneumonia

Chest Physiotherapy in Pediatric Patients Hospitalised With Community-acquired Pneumonia: a Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 72 (actual)
• Sponsor: Santa Casa de Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Year – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Chest physiotherapy has been used to treat pediatric patients hospitalized with pneumonia however there was no evidence to support a beneficial effect in pediatric patients.

Conditions

• Pneumonia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Physiotherapy	Physiotherapy: three times per day, for 10 to 12 minutes, during hospital admission
OTHER	Positioning and cough	Non-mandatory request to maintain lateral positioning to improve air exchange and cough

Timeline

• Start date: 2001-09-01
• Primary completion: 2002-09-01
• Completion: 2002-09-01
• First posted: 2009-11-20
• Last updated: 2009-11-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil