Trial reportItalian journal of pediatrics2024
Effect of a prolonged slow expiration technique on 24-h food intake in children hospitalized for moderate bronchiolitis: a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Italian journal of pediatrics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03738501 (Slow Expiratory Technique Efficacy on 24 Hours Food Ingestion in Children Under Than 12 Months, Hospitalized for Bronchiolitis), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.
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Slow Expiratory Technique Efficacy on 24 Hours Food Ingestion in Children Under Than 12 Months, Hospitalized for Bronchiolitis : a Randomized Controlled Study
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1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Effectiveness of Manual Bronchial Clearance Techniques in the Treatment of Bronchiolitis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
backgroundChest physiotherapy for airway clearance is not recommended in children hospitalized with bronchiolitis. The updated Cochrane meta-analysis suggests that slow expiratory techniques could slightly improve clinical severity, but the evidence certainty is low and the clinical significance of this change is unknown. We investigated whether the prolonged slow expiration technique (PSET) would impact the 24-h food intake of these children.
methodsWe conducted a two-arm double-blind randomized controlled trial. Hospitalized children aged from 1 to 12 months, bottle-fed or diversified and referred for airway clearance were included. Both groups received upper airway clearance at inclusion and standard treatments. The experimental group received PSET including rhinopharyngeal unclogging and targeted unprovoked cough. The primary outcome was the 24-h food intake. Clinical severity, vomit episodes and sleep quality were also recorded. An ordinary least squares linear regression for quantitative variables was modelled for between-group comparisons.
resultsFrom January 9, 2019, to December 1, 2022, 42 children were randomized with a 1:1 ratio (mean age: 5.0 (± 2.9) months). The 24-h food intake did not differ between groups (estimate: 1.8% (95%CI -7.0 to 10.6); p = 0.68). PSET had no effect on SpO2, clinical severity, RR and HR at the follow-up assessments (5 min, 30 min and 24 h after intervention), nor on the number of vomit episodes, total sleep time and SpO2 during sleep.
conclusionsPSET did not affect food intake or the 24-h course of bronchiolitis more than standard treatment in children hospitalized for moderate bronchiolitis.
trial registrationNCT03738501 registered on 13/11/2018, Slow Expiratory Technique to Improve Alimentation in Children With Bronchiolitis (BRONCHIOL-EAT); https://classic. CLINICALTRIALS: gov/ct2/show/NCT03738501.
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