NCT03738501

Slow Expiratory Technique to Improve Alimentation in Children With Bronchiolitis

Slow Expiratory Technique Efficacy on 24 Hours Food Ingestion in Children Under Than 12 Months, Hospitalized for Bronchiolitis : a Randomized Controlled Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (actual)
• Sponsor: Groupe Hospitalier du Havre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Month – 12 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine wether a single chest physiotherapy session with slow expiratory technique (SET) improves infants with viral bronchiolitis quality of life (food intake and sleep) on the next 24 hours.

Detailed description

Bronchiolitis is the most common lower respiratory viral infection in infants. Nowadays bronchiolitis is the first reason of children hospitalisation worldwide. Symptoms are based on airway inflammation associated to an increased mucus production and cell necrosis leading to a multifactorial airway obstruction. Recommended treatments are supportive care based on oxygenation and rehydration. Airway clearance techniques represented by chest physiotherapy remain controversial. Considering that bronchiolitis impacts respiratory condition in young infants feeding and sleep may be reduced. Evaluating quality of life represented by feeding and sleep in hospitalized infants may be an important outcome in this population. The investigators hypothesized that chest physiotherapy with SET will improve children's quality of life, especially 24 hours food intake and sleep.

Conditions

• Acute Viral Bronchiolitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Chest physiotherapy with SET	Chest physiotherapy with SET, and standard treatment (medical treatment, health education, nasopharyngeal clearance, advice)
OTHER	Standard Treatment	Standard pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments (medical treatment, health education, rhinopharyngeal clearance, advices)

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-02
• Primary completion: 2022-12-08
• Completion: 2022-12-08
• First posted: 2018-11-13
• Last updated: 2022-12-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France