TGV:Use of the Quick Diagnostic Test of the Influenza and the Infection With RSV by the Paediatric Emergency Unit

University Hospital, Rouen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Influenza; Respiratory Syncytial Viruses

Treatments: Device: RSV respi-strip and Quick-vue influenza

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00263900

2004/078/HP

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of the use of a quick diagnostic test of infection with RSV and influenza virus on the assumption of clinical responsibility of the children consulting at the Paediatric Emergency Unit.

Enrollment: 377 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 5 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age less than 5 years
• Isolated fever and/or
• Infection of the higher air routes (congestive otitis, feverish rhinitides, tracheitis or laryngitis) and/or infection of the lower air routes (cough, pneumonia, bronchitis, asthma)
• Signed consent form

Exclusion criteria

• Evocative clinical of a urinary and/or bacterial infection
• Purulent acute otitis media
• Typical acute bronchiolitis
• Suspicion of acute lobar pneumonia
• Acute gastro-enteritis
• Anginas
• Serious chronic respiratory pathology
• Other infection whose etiologic viral diagnosis is established
• Congenital or acquired immunizing deficits
• Congenital cardiopathy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)