Rapid identification of these patients is necessary to establish early enteraltubefeeding.
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Background: Little is known about the risk to patients' health when using home-prepared enteraltubefeeding.
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Objective: To develop and validate a prognostic model predicting swallowing recovery and the need for enteraltubefeeding.
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This knowledge may help clinicians to identify patients at risk of prolonged swallowing problems that would benefit from enteraltubefeeding.
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After informed consent participants are randomly allocated to standard care with intravenous rehydration or early enteraltubefeeding in addition to standard care.
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Small observational studies indicate that enteraltubefeeding may have the ability to effectively treat dehydration and malnutrition and alleviate nausea and vomiting symptoms.
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However, specific lesions of the anterior insula lead to severe impairment and tube dependency and clinicians might consider early enteraltubefeeding in these patients.
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Considering the hygiene criteria, the home-prepared enteraltubefeedings did not differ significantly.