{"id":677,"date":"2026-03-13T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/?p=677"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:45:00","slug":"new-research-publication-laryngeal-edema-aspiration-in-acute-respiratory-failure-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/2026\/03\/13\/new-research-publication-laryngeal-edema-aspiration-in-acute-respiratory-failure-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"New Research Publication: Laryngeal Edema &#038; Aspiration in Acute Respiratory Failure Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to share a new paper from the OTO\u2011COATI Lab, published in the <em>European Archives of Oto\u2011Rhino\u2011Laryngology<\/em> and made available online March 5, 2026: \u201cIdentifying the association between post\u2011extubation laryngeal edema and aspiration in acute respiratory failure patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Authors include Devin Lucas (OTO-COATI Lab clinical research coordinator), Ryan Peterson, Jared Rieck, Moses Owusu, Edel McNally, Rebecca Scheel, Patricia Cavanagh, Susan Langmore, Ann Kearney, Joseph Levitt, Jonathan Siner, Rosemary Vojnik, Heather Warner, Mitali Sakharkar (BU medical student and OTO\u2011COATI member), Winston Liu (BU undergraduate and OTO\u2011COATI member), Alix Rubio (OTO\u2011COATI alumnus), Marc Moss, and Gintas Krisciunas (OTO\u2011COATI Lab Director).<\/p>\n<p>This study was done as part of a nationwide consortium looking at complications from acute respiratory failure, with partners from University of Colorado, Stanford, Yale, and a talented group of speech\u2011language pathologists.<\/p>\n<p>The authors looked at clinical outcomes and FEES (flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing) videos from 120 patients who had been intubated, to see how laryngeal swelling after extubation relates to aspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Key takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Swelling of the aryepiglottic folds stood out as the strongest predictor of post\u2011extubation aspiration.<\/li>\n<li>Weakness independently raised the risk of aspiration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These findings help us better understand why some patients aspirate after extubation and point toward targets for future research and interventions to reduce those risks.<\/p>\n<p>Huge congratulations to the whole team \u2014 and thanks to our consortium collaborators for making this important work possible.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full published article, click <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00405-026-10060-y?utm_source=researchgate.net&amp;utm_medium=article\">here<\/a>. Also, click <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/research\/#:~:text=Studies%20Related%20to%20Acute%20Respiratory%20Failure\">here<\/a> to learn about the consortium&#8217;s other research on acute respiratory failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to share a new paper from the OTO\u2011COATI Lab, published in the European Archives of Oto\u2011Rhino\u2011Laryngology and made available online March 5, 2026: \u201cIdentifying the association between post\u2011extubation laryngeal edema and aspiration in acute respiratory failure patients.\u201d Authors include Devin Lucas (OTO-COATI Lab clinical research coordinator), Ryan Peterson, Jared Rieck, Moses Owusu, Edel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23038,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/oto-coati\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}