Background and purpose Comprehensive swallow screening assessments to identify dysphagia make early eating drinking recommendations can be used by trained nurses. This study aimed validate the Dysphagia Trained Nurse Assessment (DTNAx) tool in acute stroke patients. Methods Participants with diagnosed were prospectively consecutively recruited from an unit. Following a baseline DTNAx on admissi...

Dysphagia is prominent across the continuum of stroke recovery and its presence is likely to result in pulmonary complications, particularly pneumonia. It is estimated that between 29 and 50 percent of acute stroke survivors are dysphagic. In this chapter, we describe techniques that are commonly used in the detection and assessment of dysphagia and aspiration. We also review the interventions ...

Dysphagia, a symptom characterized by difficulty swallowing, is an independent predictor of poor outcome, worsening morbidity, increasing the risk for hospital readmissions, health care costs and mortality. Dysphagia is a result of a number of illnesses including neurological diseases, after surgery for head and neck pathology, observed in the intensive care unit after prolonged endotracheal in...

OBJECTIVE Before the advanced evaluation of deglutition and selection of a treatment method, objective screening methods are necessary for patients with dysphagia. In this study a new electroclinical test was established to evaluate patients with dysphagia. METHODS This test is based on determining piecemeal deglutition; which is a physiological phenomenon occurring when a bolus of a large vo...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate dysphagia at the oropharyngeal stage of swallowing and to determine the pathophysiological mechanisms of dysphagia in patients with myasthenia gravis. METHODS Fifteen patients with myasthenia gravis with dysphagia and 10 patients without dysphagia were investigated by a combined electrophysiological and mechanical method described previously. Laryngeal movements were det...

Background: Undiagnosed anxiety and depression are obstacles for the effective treatment of post-surgical dysphagia. The prevalence associations between postsurgical dysphagia poorly studied areas in Sri Lanka. Aims: This study aimed to determine proportion among patients with following oral, oral maxillofacial (OMF), neck surgeries, identify severity stage dysphagia, occurrence depression. Met...

INTRODUCTION  The rehabilitation in oropharyngeal dysphagia evidence-based implies the relationship between the interventions and their results. OBJECTIVE  Analyze level of dysphagia, oral ingestion, anxiety levels and nutritional status of patients with stroke diagnosis, before and after speech therapy. METHOD  Clinical assessment of dysphagia partially using the Protocol of Risk Assessmen...