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Chest physiotherapy was of no benefit to children hospitalised with acute pneumonia

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2010.187625

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    In children with acute pneumonia, does chest physiotherapy hasten time to clinical resolution or shorten hospital stay?

    Study design

    Design

    Randomised controlled trial.

    Allocation

    Random number table, however, method of allocation concealment not explicitly stated.

    Blinding

    Attending paediatricians and assessors were blinded although details were not stated.

    Study question

    Setting

    Paediatric wards of two tertiary hospitals in southern Brazil.

    Patients

    A total of 89 children aged 29 days to 12 years in hospital with pneumonia. There were no differences between the control (n=42) and intervention (n=47) groups in age, sex, prematurity, maternal smoking, clinical signs including arterial oxygen saturation, chest radiographic findings or antibiotic therapy.

    Intervention

    Intervention group received chest physical therapy twice daily plus standard therapy for pneumonia and control group received standard therapy only. The chest physiotherapy sessions administered by a physiotherapist lasted 30 min. Standard therapy included antibiotic therapy, …

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    Footnotes

    • Sources of funding Brazilian government research support agencies: the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), the National Council for the Scientific and Technologic Development (CNPq) and the Research Assistance Fund of Rio Grande do Sul (FAPERGS).

    Footnotes

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.