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Association Between Hypertonic Saline and Hospital Length of Stay in Acute Viral Bronchiolitis

Author(s) -

Corinne Brooks,

Wade N. Harrison,

Shawn L. Ralston

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

jama pediatrics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.004

H-Index - 183

eISSN - 2168-6211

pISSN - 2168-6203

DOI - 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2016.0079

Subject(s) - medicine , hypertonic saline , bronchiolitis , acute bronchiolitis , covid-19 , saline , intensive care medicine , anesthesia , pediatrics , virology , respiratory system , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak

Two previous meta-analyses of nebulized hypertonic saline (HS) on hospital length of stay (LOS) in acute viral bronchiolitis have suggested benefit. Neither study fully addressed the issue of excessive heterogeneity in the cohort of studies, indicating that it may be inappropriate to combine such dissimilar studies to estimate a common treatment effect.

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