A Study of Hypertonic Saline for Infants Hospitalized With Bronchiolitis

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if nebulized hypertonic saline (or extra salty water mist) helps infants less than 12 months old hospitalized with bronchiolitis (or bad chest colds) get better enough to be discharged from the hospital sooner than those infants given nebulized normal saline (or regular salty water mist).

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Montefiore Medical Center

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients 0-12 months of age admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of bronchiolitis.

Exclusion Criteria:

• status asthmaticus

• chronic cardiopulmonary disease

• Trisomy 21

• immunodeficiency or transplant recipient

• neuromuscular disease

• admission directly to the intensive care unit

• previous use of nebulized hypertonic saline less than 12 hours prior to presentation

• previous enrollment in the study in the 72 hours prior to presentation