Steroids Helping Albuterol Responders Exclusively

Withdrawn before enrolling · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Bronchiolitis

In brief

The purpose of the study is to determine whether corticosteroids are beneficial to children with bronchiolitis whose breathing gets better after being given a breathing treatment with albuterol.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00798616

Run by

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

People needed

0

Last updated by the study team

2014-12-09

Who can join

Age: 0 and older, up to 2. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• diagnosis of bronchiolitis
• Respiratory Distress Assessment Index score of 4 or more

You may not qualify if…

• prior prescription of bronchodilators or inhaled corticosteroids
• birth at <36 weeks gestation
• chronic cardiac disease
• chronic pulmonary disease (including asthma)
• immunodeficiency
• non-topical steroid use in the prior week
• parents that don't understand English
• baseline systolic blood pressure >118 mmHg
• home oxygen use
• evidence of systemic fungal or varicella infection
• bronchodilator use in the prior week
• allergy to albuterol or corticosteroids

Where it is running

• University Hospitals of Cleveland — Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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