Conclusion

Maintaining adequate feeding during hospital stay is a key component of bronchiolitis care, the clinical severity on admission may be related to the length of recover adequate feeding (LOFR), ranging from none to significant. Other known factors such as oxygen therapy and the new clinical severity scale proposed by the latest French guidelines appeared to be related to the length of stay (LOS) in this work. On the other hand, bronchiolitis airway clearance technique (ACT) referral was not associated with neither LOFR nor LOS, suggesting that ACT use did not modify the course of these children’s stay. Further robust work is needed to elucidate these questions.