Randomized trial of physiotherapy and hypertonic saline techniques for sputum induction in asthmatic children and adolescents.
Egberto Luiz Felicio-JúniorViviani BarnabéFrancine Maria de AlmeidaMonise Dematte AvonaIsabella Santos de GenaroAdriana KurdejakMiriam Cardoso Neves EllerKarina Pierantozzi VerganidJoaquim Carlos RodriguesIolanda de Fátima Lopes Calvo TibérioMilton de Arruda MartinsBeatriz Mangueira Saraiva RomanholoPublished in: Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) (2020)
The physiotherapy sputum collection technique was effective in obtaining viable cells from mucus samples and yielded the same amount of sputum as the gold standard technique (hypertonic saline). In addition, the physiotherapy maneuvers were both safe and useful for sputum induction in asthmatic children and adolescents with well-controlled asthma.