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The efficacy of speech therapy in post-intubated patients with swallowing disorder

The efficacy of speech therapy in post-intubated patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
REBEC
Registry ID
RBR-9829jk
Enrollment
Unknown
Registered
2014-10-15
Start date
2010-09-15
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-10-27

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

swallowing disorders

Interventions

Treated group: 17 patients. Intervention: phonoaudiological intervention through evaluation, guidelines (patient positioning, oral hygiene, volume, flavor and food temperature
utensils used for food), therapeutic techniques (maneuvers airway protection and glottal cleaning as "bent head, voluntary cough ", oromiofuncionais exercises as" tongue out and into the mouth" and vo
Other

Sponsors

Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
Lead Sponsor
Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
Collaborator

Eligibility

Age
18 Years to 100 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Volunteers of both genders, aged between 18 and 100 years who received orotracheal intubation in more than 48 hours and extubation between two and seven days

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Clinically very serious volunteers, who are making use of tracheostomy, which are not making use of a nasogastric tube; diagnosis of neurological diseases

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Decreased time to progression of nasogastric tube feeding to oral feeding in the group that underwent speech therapy: assessment, guidelines (patient positioning, oral hygiene, volume, flavor and food temperature; utensils used for food), therapeutic techniques (maneuvers of airway protection and glottal cleaning) oromiofuncionais and vocal exercises (3 sets of 10 repetitions for the chosen exercise) and introducing diet. It is expected that the results of the Treated Group and Control Group are different depending on of the realization of speech therapy.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
We verified the effectiveness of speech therapy through FOIS scale (scale of functional oral intake), to demonstrate the safe progression of diet dependent alternative pathway (nasoenteric tube) to the oral route. We saw that the Treaty Group reached levels regarding the oral routh (between 4 and 7) and this increase was in fewer days compared to the control group.

Countries

Brazil

Contacts

Public ContactSergio Menna Barreto

Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre

smenna@terra.com.br(51) 3359.8000

Outcome results

None listed

Source: REBEC (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 16, 2026