Babies discharged from the emergency department (ED) for bronchiolitis saw mixed benefits from enhanced nasal suctioning, a randomized trial found.
Additional resource use — a composite of unscheduled revisits for bronchiolitis or use of additional suctioning devices for feeding or breathing concerns — occurred in 37.0% of the patients receiving minimal bulb suction compared to 26.2% of patients receiving enhanced suction with a battery-operated device (P=0.03), reported Suzanne Schuh, MD, of the University of Toronto, and coauthors of the SNOT trial.
The difference was driven by greater use of additional suctioning devices in the minimal suction group (17.9% vs 6.0%, P
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