Normal Breathing and Swallowing in Healthy Volunteers

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-02-28
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to establish normative values for clinical testing measures of swallow, respiratory and cough functions. This will aide in establishing degree of impairment in disordered populations, and in identifying efficacious treatment paradigms for dysphagia.

• Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Florida
• Treatments: Capsaicin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Up to 120 individuals will be included in this study.

• Subjects will include both male and females who are aged between 18-100

• Healthy and with no major medical conditions.

• No specific gender or race will be excluded or targeted for participation in this study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Adults who are pregnant

• Those with major medical conditions (i.e., swallowing impairment, brain injury) will be excluded from this study.

• Anyone with allergy to barium will be excluded from this study.