Effect of Neurophysiological Facilitation of Respiration on Blood Gases and Hospital Stay in Children With Pneumonia

Asmaa Ahmed Abd El-samad

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Pneumonia

Treatments: Other: conventional chest physical therapy; Other: Respiratory neurophysiological facilitation techniques

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07070271

P.T.REC/012/005586

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to investigate the effect of respiratory neurophysiological facilitation techniques on arterial blood gases, the severity of respiratory illness and duration of hospital stay in hospitalized children with pneumonia.

Full description

Children who were hospitalized with a clinically and radiologically confirmed diagnosis of pneumonia will participate in this study. Selected Patients will be randomly assigned into two groups of equal number.

One group will only receive conventional chest physical therapy program in form of (postural drainage, chest percussion, vibration and suction if needed). The other group will receive conventional chest physical therapy program along with respiratory neurophysiological facilitation techniques in form of (anterior basal lift, intercostal stretch, abdominal co-contraction).

All patients will receive the treatment program once a day for successive 5 days.

Enrollment: 36 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 months to 2 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children of both sexes, with age ranged from 6 months to 2 years old.
• All children diagnosed with pneumonia.
• All children should be vitally stable during the study period.

Exclusion criteria

• Medically unstable children.
• Children with uncontrolled convulsions.
• Children with Osteopenia.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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36 participants in 2 patient groups

Conventional chest physical therapy

Active Comparator group

Description:

Children in this group will only receive conventional chest physical therapy program in form of (postural drainage, chest percussion, vibration and suction if needed).

Treatment:

Other: conventional chest physical therapy

Conventional chest physical therapy + Neurophysiological facilitation techniques

Experimental group

Description:

Children in this group will receive conventional chest physical therapy program along with respiratory neurophysiological facilitation techniques in form of (anterior basal lift, intercostal stretch, abdominal co-contraction).

Treatment:

Other: Respiratory neurophysiological facilitation techniques

Other: conventional chest physical therapy