Dysphagia Rehabilitation by the Nutritional Support Team (NST)

Nutritional Support in Dysphagia

Efficacy of Comprehensive Preoperative Pulmonary Rehabilitation Including Intensive Nutritional Support through an Interdisciplinary Team Approach

2Department of Rehabilitation, National Hospital Organization Kure Medical Center and Chugoku Cancer Center, 3-1 Aoyama-cho, Kure, Hiroshima, 737-0023, Japan 3Department of Nutrition, National Hospital Organization Kure Medical Center and Chugoku Cancer Center, 3-1 Aoyama-cho, Kure, Hiroshima, 737-0023, Japan 4Medical Technologist, National Hospital Organization Kure Medical Center and Chugoku ...

How to Manage the Pediatric Nutritional Support Team: Updates

Pediatric patients in hospital are at risk of malnutrition at admission and even during their hospitalization. Although the concept of nutritional support team (NST) was introduced to hospitals for optimal nutritional care since 1960s and the benefits of pediatric NST have been proven by many studies and reports in terms of patient clinical outcome and cost saving, the pediatric NST is not wide...

Dysphagia Rehabilitation in Japan.

In Japan, one of the most common causes of death in elderly people is aspiration pneumonia. Maintenance of oral hygiene and feeding functions are important elements, especially in patients with dysphagia caused by stroke, neurological diseases, and after operations on the head and neck cancer, as well as in the elderly to prevent aspiration pneumonia. It should also be noted that not only oral ...

Postsurgical dysphagia: evaluation and rehabilitation

Surgical resection of a malignant tumor in the head and neck regions quite often alters the complex act of swallowing. The goal of dysphagia rehabilitation is to return the patient’s swallowing to as near normal as possible. Although surgical procedures in the oral cavity, tongue, pharynx can affect preparation, control and transport of the bolus, functional disorders following laryngeal surger...