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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
45 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2010-12-31
2012-03-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of Centro Hospitalar Universitário São João-Porto.
Children up to 2 years of age, both genders, with a diagnosis of acute bronchiolitis based on clinical findings, including wheezing or wheezing with crackles, respiratory distress and alteration of feeding condition, were signalized by the physician who met them at the emergency room.
Then, the main investigator of the study interviewed the caregivers and informed about the aims and procedures of the study, after a formal written consent in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki was sign by all the caregivers.
Severity grade was established with the Kristjansson Respiratory Score which variate from light to severe, being the light to moderate selected to study.
Randomization in intervention or control group was made by the method of permuted-blocks. All children were assessed in a calm environment, while awake and not crying, and were submitted to a standard assessment protocol consisting of a clinical demographic data collection by interview of parents and the application of the Kristjansson Respiratory Score. All children underwent the same medical treatment protocol at the pediatric emergency department (PED), consisting in nebulization with medication, during the emergency room episode, and counselled in the subsequent one or two weeks and were followed during two weeks after discharge from PED, being reassessed at the end of the two weeks.
Children from Intervention Group (IG) underwent a standard intervention chest physiotherapy protocol performed by a physiotherapist, consisting on the techniques: prolonged slow expiration (PSE), rhinopharyngeal retrograde clearance (RRC) and provoked cough (PC).
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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Control
The participants just received standard medical treatment
No interventions assigned to this group
Intervention
The participants received medical treatment and chest physiotherapy sessions
Chest physiotherapy
Interventions
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Chest physiotherapy
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
15 Days
24 Months
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Universidade do Porto
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Frederico Ramos Pinto
Principal Investigator
References
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Roque-Figuls M, Gine-Garriga M, Granados Rugeles C, Perrotta C, Vilaro J. Chest physiotherapy for acute bronchiolitis in paediatric patients between 0 and 24 months old. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2023 Apr 3;4(4):CD004873. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD004873.pub6.
Pinto FR, Alexandrino AS, Correia-Costa L, Azevedo I. Ambulatory chest physiotherapy in mild-to-moderate acute bronchiolitis in children under two years of age - A randomized control trial. Hong Kong Physiother J. 2021 Dec;41(2):99-108. doi: 10.1142/S1013702521500098. Epub 2021 Mar 31.
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Other Identifiers
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FRP-01
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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