None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Acute bronchiolitis is a disorder most commonly caused in infants by viral lower respiratory tract infection, predominantly due to respiratory syncytial virus. Considered the most frequent cause of hospitalization among infants during winter, its management is still controversial. Physiotherapy is usually recommended for these patients. The clinical impression of physicians and physiotherapists is that manual techniques may potentially reduce the intensity of the acute illness in infants, but the real effectiveness remains unclear and untested. Besides, there are two major groups of manual techniques that compose chest physiotherapy – anglo-saxon and european - but neither was systematically compared. The aim of this trial is to investigate if there is a group of techniques that improves the clinical outcomes of infants with acute bronchiolitis.
Interventions
Anglo-saxon Chest Physiotherapy Techniques. Number of sessions: 14. Time period: 5 weeks. Duration per session: 30min. Anglo-saxon Chest Physioterapy techniques: inalotherapy, vibration, postural drainage, percussion and induced cough.
Sponsors
Rafael Cofiño de Sá
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
0 to 24 Months
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Age between 0 and 24 months, recent acute bronchiolitis diagnostic attested by a physician and a posteroanterior (PA) Thorax X-Ray incidence
Exclusion criteria
Infants older than 24 months, patients diagnosed with respiratory, neurological or muscular associated disease. Infants without physician support and without recent posteranterior (PA) thorax X-Ray.
Outcome results
None listed