ERAS Swallowing Rehabilitation in Elder Patients

Effectivity of Early Recovery Accelerated Swallowing Program on Promoting Swallowing Recovery in Older Patients With High Risk of Oral Frailty Requiring Endotracheal Intubation During General Anesthesia: a Pilot Randomized Control Trial

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT05999786

Enrollment

Registered

2023-08-21

Start date

2023-08-10

Completion date

2030-12-31

Last updated

2023-08-21

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Conditions

The Upper Esophageal Sphincter Contraction Strength

Brief summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALearly rehabiliation swallowing program

not receiving early rehabilitation swallowing program from before and after surgery

BEHAVIORALnot receiving early rehabilitation swallowing program

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

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

QUADRUPLE (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)

Masking description

Data manager knows whether the patients are in the intervention or control group. However, the patients, caregiver, investigator, and outcome assessors do not know whether the patients are in the intervention or control group.

Intervention model description

Patients receive early recovery of swallowing rehabiliation before surgery and continued to after surgery

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

20 Years to 80 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* elective surgery * general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation

Exclusion criteria

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

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
UES pressure, mmHg	about six months

Contacts

Primary ContactChih-Min Liu, MD

lewisliu@ntuh.gov.tw_886-972652224

Backup ContactChih-Jun Lai, MD

littlecherrytw@gmail.com+886-972652086

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026