The catering, speech and language and dietetics teams at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (Sath) have worked together to create three new colour-coded menus for patients with
dysphagia.
The catering, speech and language and dietetics teams at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (Sath) have worked together to create three new colour-coded menus for patients with
dysphagia. The menus adopt The International
Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative's framework.
The primary objective of treatment is palliation of
dysphagia. The bypass resection surgery, laser, intubation, chemotherapy, dilatation, external beam radiotherapy, and intraluminal brachytherapy can be done to palliate the
dysphagia.
The Adult
Dysphagia Pocket Guide: Neuroanatomy to Clinical Practice
To the Editor: In the last recent years, significant progress has been achieved in research on
dysphagia. This is important because approximately 50% of patients with
dysphagia after acute stroke still have a slow functional recovery, and the duration of disease may last for several months or the whole life.
In practice, there is no specific criteria and guidelines for speech therapist actions in the evaluation process and family orientation of
dysphagia patients, especially those attended at home.
Five national specialists in the fields of stroke, neuro-intensive care, nutrition, and swallowing disorders collaborated to create basic proposals on the clinical significance of nutrition and
dysphagia in patients with stroke, the diagnosis and treatment of malnutrition, and swallowing disorders, enteral nutrition products, application principles and complications, with consideration to national conditions.
A swallowing disorder or loss of swallowing ability is called
dysphagia; it leads to the development of following lesions in various areas of the cerebral cortex or neuromuscular conduction problems related to swallowing (2).
Dysphagia or swallowing disorder is a common complication for patients with neurological disorders such as TBI with an incidence as high as 93% in patients admitted to brain injury rehabilitation.
Multilevel upper airway surgery for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been shown to cause clinically significant
dysphagia in some patients.
When the OALL is extraordinarily large, it can compress the pharyngoesophageal and laryngotracheal segments, resulting in several symptoms, including
dysphagia, dyspnea, and hoarseness.
Dysphagia due to benign lesions is one of the most interesting diseases due to great diversity with regards to its regional incidence worldwide.