Swallowing and Aspiration Risk: A Critical Review of Non Instrumental Bedside Screening Tests.

CONCLUSIONS: The literature is dense with screening methods for assessing the presence of dysphagia but with low predictive value for aspiration risk after acute stroke. A standard, practical, and cost-effective screening tool that can be applied at the bedside and interpreted by a wide range of hospital personnel remains to be developed. This need is highlighted in settings where neither trained personnel in evaluating dysphagia nor clinical instrumentation procedures are available. PMID: 29504298 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Clinical Neurology - Category: Neurology Tags: J Clin Neurol Source Type: research