A Study Pilot About the Contribution of Pleuropulmonary Echography Iin Acute Bronchiolitis Among Infants (ECHOPE)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Bronchiolitis

Treatments: Device: Pleuropulmonary echography

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04935996

2021/579

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pleuropulmonary echography remains an almost non-existent tool in routine pediatric practice.

Our study is part of a desire to develop its use in pediatrics, in particular for the diagnosis of acute bacterial pneumonitis associated with acute bronchiolitis among infants.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 2 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Infants aged <= 2 years old
• Medical diagnosis of acute bronchiolitis requiring hospitalization in the pediatric departments of the Besançon University Hospital
• No opposition from the parents for performing the pleuropulmonary echography.

Exclusion criteria

• Children aged > 2 years old
• Infants aged < 2 years old consultant in pediatric emergencies for acute bronchiolitis without subsequent hospitalization.
• Previous chronic lung disease (including pulmonary bronchodysplasia), unoperated congenital heart disease or neuromuscular disease.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 1 patient group

Pleuropulmonary echography

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Pleuropulmonary echography