Conditions: Bronchiolitis
Keywords: heliox bronchiolitis racemic epinephrine
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 72
Healthy volunteers: yes

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to assess whether children with moderate to severe bronchiolitis treated with standard racemic epinephrine therapy via 70:30 helium-oxygen (heliox) driven nebulization will have improvements in measurements of airway more rapidly than those treated with conventional air-oxygen driven nebulization.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: heliox-driven nebulizations for children with moderate to severe bronchiolitis arm 2: oxygen-driven nebulizations for children with moderate to severe bronchiolitis

Interventions: intervention 1: heliox intervention 2: oxygen
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: continuous heliox therapy intervention 2: continuous oxygen therapy

Protocol document: