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ERAS Swallowing Rehabilitation in Elder Patients

Not Applicable
Not yet recruiting
Conditions
The Upper Esophageal Sphincter Contraction Strength
Interventions
Behavioral: early rehabiliation swallowing program
Behavioral: not receiving early rehabilitation swallowing program
Registration Number
NCT05999786
Lead Sponsor
National Taiwan University Hospital
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.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
50
Inclusion Criteria
  • elective surgery
  • general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation
Exclusion Criteria
  • major organ dysfunction, ex: chronic kidney disease, hear failure
  • bleeding tendency

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
patients receiving early rehabiliation swallowing programearly rehabiliation swallowing programthe early rehabilitation program beginning from before to after surgery
patients not receiving early rehabilitation swallowing programnot receiving early rehabilitation swallowing programthe Taiwan Dysphagia Society's publicly shared swallowing exercises for dysphagia, which is started from before to after surgery
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
UES pressure, mmHgabout six months
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
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