Table 3.

Mean percent occurrence of swallow-respiration patterns in the study groups at the three monitored oral feeding sessions

	O n=19	T/K n=18	O+T/K n=18	Control n=20
Start I-Sw-End E
1–2 PO/day	18.4 (2.1)	11.0 (2.4)	16.1 (1.9)	12.1 (3.4)
3–5 PO/day	19.2 (2.5)	12.5 (1.9)	18.2 (2.5)	14.4 (2.1)
6–8 PO/day	17.1 (1.5)	13.7 (1.7)	15.7 (3.2)	16.2 (2.6)
Group mean	18.2 (2.0)	12.4 (2.0)	16.7 (2.5)	14.2 (2.7)
I-Sw-I
1–2 PO/day	21.7 (1.9)	25.9 (5.8)	23.2 (3.3)	19.8 (2.1)
3–5 PO/day	21.9 (2.7)	26.8 (2.8)	16.9 (2.2)	20.8 (3.3)
6–8 PO/day	19.1 (2.5)	20.4 (2.5)	22.2 (3.0)	14.2 (2.7)
Group mean	20.9 (2.4)	24.4 (3.7)	20.8 (2.8)	18.3 (2.7)
End I-Sw-Start E
1–2 PO/day	16.0 (2.0)	14.2 (4.9)	13.5 (2.8)	12.8 (1.3)
3–5 PO/day	17.2 (2.3)	14.0 (1.9)	14.1 (2.7)	11.1 (1.9)
6–8 PO/day	15.2 (1.8)	17.3 (1.8)	13.9 (1.9)	14.2 (3.0)
Group mean	16.1 (2.0)	15.2 (2.9)	13.8 (2.5)	12.7 (2.1)
E-Sw-E
1–2 PO/day	13.0 (2.0)	20.7 (8.3)	17.2 (2.1)	9.1 (2.3)
3–5 PO/day	11.1 (3.0)	20.7 (2.6)	19.8 (2.9)	10.2 (3.1)
6–8 PO/day	15.1 (1.6)	18.0 (2.5)	21.1 (3.0)	9.0 (4.9)
Group mean	13 (2.2)	19.8(4.5)a, b	19.4(2.7)a, b	9.4 (3.4)
Sw interrupt I
1–2 PO/day	6.2 (1.4)	6.1 (3.1)	6.4 (2.1)	5.9 (1.2)
3–5 PO/day	7.0 (1.6)	6.3 (1.1)	2.7 (0.7)	2.0 (0.5)
6–8 PO/day	8.3 (1.6)	4.3 (0.9)	3.1 (0.8)	6.2 (1.3)
Group mean	7.2 (1.5)	5.6 (1.7)	4.1 (1.2)	4.7 (1.0)
Sw interrupt E
1–2 PO/day	6.0 (1.1)	5.6 (2.6)	3.8 (0.8)	3.3 (2.2)
3–5 PO/day	6.5 (1.6)	5.6 (0.9)	5.1 (1.1)	9.1 (2.1)
6–8 PO/day	4.1 (0.9)	6.1 (0.9)	3.0 (1.4)	6.2 (1.2)
Group mean	5.5 (1.2)	5.8 (1.5)	4.0(1.1)	6.2 (1.8)
P-Sw-P
1–2 PO/day	18.7 (3.9)	16.5 (2.6)	17.8 (5.4)	38.8 (6.0)
3–5 PO/day	17.2 (4.0)	14.2 (4.0)	23.2 (4.1)	32.5 (6.0)
6–8 PO/day	21.1 (4.3)	20.3 (4.7)	21.0 (5.0)	34.0 (5.3)
Group mean	19.0 (4.1)a	17.0 (3.8)a	20.7 (6.5)a	35.1 (5.8)

I-inspiration, Sw-swallow, E-expiration, PO-oral feedings/day, P-pause, Data presented as means (SEM) Repeated measures ANOVA followed by post-hoc Tukey tests

^ap < 0.05 vs. control,

^bp < 0.05 vs. O