Chest Physiotherapy in Pediatrics Patients With Pneumonia

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Pneumonia
• Interventions: Other: Positioning and cough; Other: Physiotherapy

• Registration Number: NCT01017081
• Lead Sponsor: Santa Casa de Porto Alegre

Brief Summary

Chest physiotherapy has been used to treat pediatric patients hospitalized with pneumonia however there was no evidence to support a beneficial effect in pediatric patients.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2001-09
• Primary Completion: 2002-09
• Study Completion: 2002-09
• Status Verified: 2009-11
• Study First Submitted: 2009-11-19
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-11-19
• Last Update Submitted: 2009-11-19
• Study First Posted: 2009-11-20
• Last Update Posted: 2009-11-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 72

Inclusion Criteria

• Children aged 1 to 12 years with acute community-acquired pneumonia (cough, tachypnea, fever and with a chest radiography with lobar, segmental or bronchopneumonia within the first 48 hours)

Exclusion Criteria

• Severely ill patients (hospitalized in intensive care units)
• Pleural effusion treated with chest drainage
• Atelectasis detected by x-ray
• Pneumonia or pleural effusion in the previous six months
• Other pulmonary underlying disease, heart disease, cerebral palsy or immune deficiency

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Control	Positioning and cough	Non-mandatory request to maintain lateral positioning to improve air exchange, to cough in order to clear secretion, and to perform diaphragmatic and deep breathing, for five minutes, once a day, during hospital stay.
Physiotherapy	Physiotherapy	Physiotherapy: Children younger than 5 years: Manual Thoracic vibration (TV), thoracic compression (TC), positive expiratory pressure (PEP), and forced exhalation with the glottis open ("huffing"). Children aged 5 years or older: same procedures in addition to the ventilatory patterns, and a forced expiratory technique (FET), consisting of one or two "huffs" (forced expirations) followed by a period of relaxed, controlled diaphragmatic breathing, three times per day, for 10 to 12 minutes, during hospital admission.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Santa Casa de Porto Alegre; 🇧🇷 Posto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil