Oral Fluid Intake After Extubation

University Hospital, Motol

Status: Completed

Conditions: Intubation

Treatments: Behavioral: Fluid intake not as per standard guidlines

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05819645

EK-1381/22

Details and patient eligibility

About

According to the current guidelines the patient is not allowed to drink any fluid at least 2 hours after extubation to prevent complications. However there is no evidence in the literature to support this approach. Because anaesthetic drugs and their side effects changed significantly from their first usage, the investigators can assume that existing approach is obsolete and has no place anymore in the modern medicine. Keeping patient n.p.o (nothing per os) for 2 hours after extubation may lead to patient´s thirst or other discomfort. The aim of the study is to detect whether early oral fluid intake after extubation could lead to safe relief of thirst and to better patient´s comfort overall.

Full description

Everything stated in the brief summary.

Enrollment: 160 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients with planned extubation assigned to the study
• able to swallow the fluid
• willing to participate the study

Exclusion criteria

• patients after upper digestive tract surgery
• patients after trachea surgery
• patients with possible neurological deficiency
• patients after VIII. cranial nerve surgery
• patients not able to swallow

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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160 participants in 2 patient groups

Early fluid intake

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Fluid intake not as per standard guidlines

Standard Delayed oral fluid

Other group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Fluid intake not as per standard guidlines