NCT01158313

Bedside Screening Method for Patients With Potential Swallowing Impairment

Development and Validation of Clinician-administered Bedside Screening Method for Patients With Potential Swallowing Impairment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Société des Produits Nestlé (SPN) · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Previous studies have shown that most patients with functional oropharyngeal dysphagia could be quickly, safely and accurately recognized by using a clinical bedside method developed by the investigative team as the volume-viscosity swallow test (V-VST) that systematically evaluates the main clinical signs and symptoms of safety and efficacy of swallowing and monitors pulse oximetry to improve the detection of patients with silent aspirations.The aim of this study is to validate this test for persons suspected of having swallowing impairment, using a new thickener, with respect to the Videofluoroscopy (VFS) method (treated as the gold standard).

Conditions

• Deglutition Disorders
• Dysphagia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Thickened supplement	New thickener to be mixed to liquid to obtain different viscosities such as nectar viscosity, honey viscosity, conservative spoon-thick viscosity (CST) and extreme spoon-thick viscosity (EST

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-07-01
• Primary completion: 2011-07-01
• Completion: 2011-08-01
• First posted: 2010-07-08
• Last updated: 2013-10-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain