TO STUDY THE UTILITY OF HYPERTONIC SALINE NEBULIZER IN MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE BRONCHIOLITIS AND ITS SIDE EFFECTS.

UTILITY OF HYPERTONIC SALINE IN MANAGEMENT OF ACUTE BRONCHIOLITIS IN INFANTS

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Phase 2Phase 3

Study type

Interventional

Source

CTRI

Registry ID

CTRI/2010/091/000080

Enrollment

100

Registered

2010-07-21

Start date

Unknown

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2021-11-24

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Intervention1: Hypertonic saline (3%) and Adrenalin: 4 ml hypertonic saline and 1 ml adrenalin given as nebulizer 1 hourly at admission and then 6 hrly till discharge. Control Intervention1: Normal sa

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Infants between the age group of two month to twelve months and admitted with clinical diagnosis of acute bronchiolitis.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1.patient with recurrent episodes of wheezing, one or more episodes of respiratory distress in past 2.patients with family history of asthma,atopy. 3.presence of congenital heart disease. 4. history of prematurity and mechanical ventilation in newborn period. 5.very sick patients with shock, seizures, heart rate>180/min,respiratory rate of >100/min and adjudged to be in incipient resp. faliure. 6.grade 3 and 4 PEM 7.consolidation lung on x-ray chest. 8.foreingn body aspiration. 9.no child will be included in the study twice.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
length of hospital stay.Timepoint:	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1.improvement in RDAI score. 2. respiratory rate. 3.haemoglobin saturation. 4.heart rate. 5.number of add on treatment. 6.adverse events(tachycardia,pallor,tremor,nausea,vomiting)Timepoint:	—

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactDr Deepak Thakur

ndhawan_6144@yahoo.com0172 2731002

Outcome results