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Last refreshed on: 16 December 2017
Main ID:  NCT03143231
Date of registration: 21/04/2017
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Makassed General Hospital
Public title: Normal Saline vs Hypertonic Saline in the Treatment of Bronchiolitis
Scientific title: Normal Saline Versus Hypertonic Saline in the Treatment of Bronchiolitis
Date of first enrolment: March 1, 2016
Target sample size: 128
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03143231
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Lebanon
Contacts
Name:     Mariam Rajab, MD
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Affiliation:  Makassed General Hospital
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Infants up to 24 months of age with diagnosis of acute bronchiolitis

- In accordance with 2006 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) definition of
bronchiolitis,we did not limit to the first episode of wheeze

- Patients with the diagnosis of bronchiolitis

Exclusion Criteria:

- Chronic lung or heart disease (hemodynamically significant cardiac disease, chronic
lung disease / bronchopulmonary dysplasia requiring diuretics or oxygen)

- Cystic fibrosis, trisomy 21, immunodeficiency / transplant recipient, neuromuscular
disease



Age minimum: N/A
Age maximum: 2 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Length of Hospital Stay
Intervention(s)
Other: Normal saline
Other: Hypertonic saline
Primary Outcome(s)
Length of stay [Time Frame: an average of 5 days]
Secondary Outcome(s)
use of mechanical ventilator [Time Frame: an average of 3 days]
transfer to pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) [Time Frame: an average of 3 days]
Secondary ID(s)
1682016
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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