Swallowing Screens After Acute Stroke

Swallowing screens after acute stroke: a systematic review.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Swallowing screens after acute stroke identify those patients who do not need a formal swallowing evaluation and who can safely take food and medications by mouth. We conducted a systematic review to identify swallowing screening protocols that met basic requirements for reliability, validity, and feasibility. METHODS We searched MEDLINE and supplemented results with re...

Swallowing disorders after ischemic stroke.

OBJECTIVE To investigate occurrences of swallowing disorders after ischemic stroke. METHOD This was a retrospective study on 596 medical files. The inclusion criterion was that the patients needed to have been hospitalized with a diagnosis of ischemic stroke; the exclusion criteria were the presence of associated cardiac problems and hospital stay already more than 14 days. RESULTS 50.5% we...

Substance P and swallowing after stroke

Swallowing and cough reflexes after onset of stroke.

Taste and Temperature in Swallowing Transit Time after Stroke

BACKGROUND Oropharyngeal dysphagia is common in individuals after stroke. Taste and temperature are used in dysphagia rehabilitation. The influence of stimuli, such as taste and temperature, on swallowing biomechanics has been investigated in both healthy individuals and in individuals with neurological disease. However, some questions still remain unanswered, such as how the sequence of offere...