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FEES to Determine Neurological Intensive Care Patients' Oral Diet

NCT03753841 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 125

Last updated 2018-11-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Dysphagia is associated with high rates of mortality and morbidity. Adjusting the oral diet of ICU-patients based on flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) findings might reduce pneumonia rate, mortality and need for intubation/tracheotomy.

Conditions

  • Dysphagia
  • Aspiration Pneumonia
  • Deglutition Disorders
  • Intensive Care Neurological Disorder

Interventions

OTHER

Adjustment of oral diet

Adjustment of oral diet based on findings in fiberendoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Giessen

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tobias Braun, M.D. · University of Giessen

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-01-14
Primary Completion
2016-09-03
Completion
2016-09-16

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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