Chest Physiotherapy in Pediatrics Patients With Pneumonia

November 19, 2009 updated by: Santa Casa de Porto Alegre

Chest Physiotherapy in Pediatric Patients Hospitalised With Community-acquired Pneumonia: a Randomized Clinical Trial

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.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

72

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Brazil
    • Rio Grande do Sul
      • Posto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 90020-160
        • Santa Casa de Porto Alegre

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

1 year to 12 years (Child)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

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 Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Control
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.
Other: Positioning and cough
Non-mandatory request to maintain lateral positioning to improve air exchange and cough
Experimental: 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.
Other: Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy: three times per day, for 10 to 12 minutes, during hospital admission

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Santa Casa de Porto Alegre

Collaborators

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

September 1, 2001

Primary Completion (Actual)

September 1, 2002

Study Completion (Actual)

September 1, 2002

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

November 19, 2009

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 19, 2009

First Posted (Estimate)

November 20, 2009

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

November 20, 2009

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 19, 2009

Last Verified

November 1, 2009

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • FISIOPUL

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