Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilation for Children With Bronchiolitis on Non-Invasive Ventilation Support

Soroka University Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Bronchiolitis

Treatments: Device: Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilation (Percussionaire Corp, Sandpoint, Idaho)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03037801

SOR-0074-16 CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Prospective randomized study of patients admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit suffering from Bronchiolitis and are supported on Non Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation. The patient population will be divided into two groups, one group will receive conventional treatment and the other group will receive conventional treatment and three times a day of physiotherapy using Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilation.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 2 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Bronchiolitis
• PICU patients
• Non Invasive Pressure Support Ventilation
• Age < 24 months

Exclusion criteria

• Age > 24 months
• Invasive Ventilation
• No parental consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilation

Experimental group

Description:

15 minutes of IPV physiotherapy

Treatment:

Device: Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilation (Percussionaire Corp, Sandpoint, Idaho)