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 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.