The Journal of pediatrics
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The Journal of pediatrics · Dec 2005
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyNoninvasive therapy with helium-oxygen for severe bronchiolitis.
To determine whether noninvasive therapy using a helium-oxygen mixture reduces the use of positive-pressure ventilation in the treatment of respiratory failure caused by severe bronchiolitis. ⋯ This study did not detect any differences between the patients in the helium group and the control group with respect to the rate of positive-pressure ventilation.