Cola and Improved Oesophageal Food Bolus Obstruction

• Efficacy of cola ingestion for oesophageal food bolus impaction: open label, multicentre, randomised controlled trial.

  • 2023-12-11
  • RCT · n = 51
  • BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 383
  • • E G Tiebie
    • E P Baerends
    • T Boeije
    • P G Frankenmolen
    • H Lameijer
    • W van den Berg
    • K J van Stralen
    • K J van Stralen
    • M L Ridderikhof
    • A J Bredenoord

  • PubMed: 38081653
  • DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2023-077294

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Oesophageal Food Bolus Obstruction

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Cola did not have a meaningful effect on the improvement of food bolus obstruction (17/28 (61%) intervention v 14/23 (61%) control; odds ratio 1.00, 95% confidence interval 0.33 to 3.1; relative risk reduction 0.0, 95% confidence interval -0.55 to 0.36; P>0.99).

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  25 mL cups at intervals up to a maximum total volume of 200 mL