Cola and Improved Oesophageal Food Bolus Passage

• 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 Passage

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Complete passage was reported more often in the intervention group but this difference was not significant (12/28 (43%) intervention v 8/23 (35%) control; odds ratio 1.4 (0.45 to 4.4); relative risk reduction -0.23 (-1.5 to 0.39); P=0.58).

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

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