A Study of Hypertonic Saline for Infants Hospitalized With Bronchiolitis

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Conditions studied: Bronchiolitis

In brief

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).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01488448

Run by

Montefiore Medical Center

People needed

227

Starts

2011-11-01

Expected to finish

2015-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-02-02

Who can join

Age: any, up to 1. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

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

You may not qualify if…

• 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

Where it is running

• Children's Hospital at Montefiore — The Bronx, New York, United States

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