ERAS Swallowing Rehabilitation in Elder Patients

National Taiwan University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: The Upper Esophageal Sphincter Contraction Strength

Treatments: Behavioral: not receiving early rehabilitation swallowing program; Behavioral: early rehabiliation swallowing program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05999786

202303005RIND

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators studied that swallowing function of patients receiving the Early Recovery Accelerated Swallowing (ERAS-W program) training will recover fast than that of patients in the control group. The ERAS program training will be initiated before surgery and continue to after surgery.

Full description

The older patients (≥65 years old) with OFI-8≥4 undergoing elective orthopedic surgery requiring tracheal intubation will be recruited. Patients will be randomized into an intervention and a control group. Patients in the intervention groups will received the ERAS-W program, while those in the control group will receive the swallowing education video.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• elective surgery
• general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation

Exclusion criteria

• major organ dysfunction, ex: chronic kidney disease, hear failure
• bleeding tendency

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

patients receiving early rehabiliation swallowing program

Active Comparator group

Description:

the early rehabilitation program beginning from before to after surgery

Treatment:

Behavioral: early rehabiliation swallowing program

patients not receiving early rehabilitation swallowing program

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

the Taiwan Dysphagia Society's publicly shared swallowing exercises for dysphagia, which is started from before to after surgery

Treatment:

Behavioral: not receiving early rehabilitation swallowing program