Initially, greater than one third were silent aspirators. 2008;51(5):1072–87. However, in some patients with decreased oral sensation, a small bolus may be insufficient to trigger the swallowing reflex. Barquist E, Brown M, Cohn S, Lundy D, Jackowski J. Postextubation fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing after prolonged endotracheal intubation: a randomised, prospective trial. are met. 2003;113:1386–93. 1999;80:365–71. J Speech Lang Hear Res. but is choosing to accept these risks for comfort and QO), especially in the context Initially, we may have been guessing: you aspirate, you may or may not be able to Krival: I often ask them what is troubling them about having to make the decision. At Cleveland Clinic, we’ve assembled an entire team of all the specialists you need – including gastroenterologists, radiologists, pathologists, thoracic surgeons and swallowing therapists – to offer leading-edge This fosters real-world skills such as eating while performing other activities, such as having a conversation [9]. Hansen et al. However, two small studies suggest that the supraglottic swallow doesn’t produce measurable pharyngeal or intrabolus pressure effects in healthy subjects [82, 83]. The Speech Pathology Association of Australia Limited; 2004. p. 9–11. they are really at end of life (or needing a tube feeding). Crit Care Med. Traditional treatments for ‘neurogenic dysphagia’ such as postural adjustments, swallowing In a recent online chat, John R. Ashford emphasized the importance of good oral hygiene to the overall health of dysphagia patients and infection control. The use of biofeedback in the treatment of chronic dysphagia in stroke patients. Mackay et al. Few studies have demonstrated the physiological benefits of transcutaneous NMES for swallowing [94•, 110] and no studies have demonstrated a functional improvement in swallowing (for example, increased oral intake). Recovery of oral nutrition after head injury in adults. J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2007;21(4):563–73. Or even more than two? In order to minimise the risk of aspiration and choking, dysphagia treatment usually involves ‘texture modification’ of food and fluids. Edema 2. Dysphagia clinicians working in most medical settings have limited exposure to the head and neck cancer population. Curr Opin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. At 1 year follow-up, none were silent aspirators and some had recovered their cough reflex. Dysphagia & stroke 50% of stroke patients have dysphagia in the first few days after the stroke. J Neurotrauma. Hiss SG, Postma GN. Aspiration pneumonia following severe traumatic brain injury: prevalence and risk factors for long-term mortality. 2009;61:200–5. I will often ask the occupational therapist or physical therapist or social worker Arend: I explain bluntly to the doctor what I am seeing and what I expect in the future with Absent or decreased gag reflex 2. (nothing by mouth) patient with QOC (quality of care) and palliative plan of swallowing? Google Scholar. in place, like, “Call us back if things change.”. 1994;105:563–6. 2001;1:9–20. J Speech Hear Res. PubMed Central  2004;19(3):226–40. However, in some patients with TBI, the cognitive-communication and behavioral impairments, rather than the physiological deficits, may be key to informing the effective management of dysphagia in this population. Have a monthly meeting - 85.214.89.103. Quagliarello V, Ginter S, Han L, Van Ness P, Allore H, Tinetti M. Modifiable risk factors for nursing home-acquired pneumonia. do with my co-workers. conversation, I get the social worker in. treatment plan. Mackay LE, Morgan AS, Bernstein BA. These will be discussed, along with potential future directions and emerging treatment options. Tracheostomies, while not causing dysphagia on their own [37–39], are common in this population and will also be discussed. That duty belongs to the doctor. 1996;16(4):349–53. Prolonged endotracheal tube (ETT) and ventilation places non-TBI trauma patients at an increased risk of silent and overt aspiration, however, this risk is transient [35], with dysphagia resolving in 2–5 days post-extubation [34, 35, 48]. AHSA Lead. 2012;27:521–7. PubMed  conversation about goals of care. Participant: What is your thinking about milk-based products if patient has thick mucus but will Mackay LE, Morgan AS, Bernstein BA. Patients with delayed initiation of the oral or pharyngeal phase of swallowing may benefit from strategies designed to increase sensory input before or during the swallow [65]. Brady SL, Hildner CD, Hutchins BF. regarding wishes, and they state they don’t know or can’t make a decision, are there Krival is an affiliate of ASHA Special Interest Groups 3, Voice and Voice Disorders; use of swabs and mouth moisturizer for oral comfort. If you have the base policy and supportive J Rehabil Res Dev. These maneuvers may not be appropriate for all patients with TBI [8, 9, 40, 43] and details will be discussed in the management section of this paper. I would start there. more alert. Hegde Plural Pub., c2007 It provides information on transit times and the amount, etiology and type (silent or overt) of aspiration [43]. Agitated patients, and those with verbal and/or physical outbursts, are at risk of choking or aspirating if outbursts occur during mealtimes [8, 9, 40]. Additionally, TBI-related frontal lobe damage [30, 31] can produce significant self-regulatory impairments [31]. Google Scholar. It increases posterior pharyngeal wall movement during swallowing which is helpful for patients with reduced base of tongue retraction [98]. In this way, physical injury may add complexity to the management of neurological dysphagia. 2007;73(11):1117–21. Maryland Heights, MO: Mosby/Elsevier; 2010. 2010;15(6):12. Following further analyses, the authors concluded that RLA was the most important independent predictor of the time taken to achieve full oral feeding [29]. Ekberg O, Hamdy S, Woisard V, Wuttge-Hannig A, Ortega P. Social and psychological burden of dysphagia: its impact on diagnosis and treatment. Phys Ther. A thorough premorbid and current medical history including the nature and severity of the TBI are obtained from the medical file. Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service, Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, PO Box 533, Wentworthville, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia, You can also search for this author in Reducing environmental distractions can assist patients with deficits in divided or alternating attention [8, 9]. Outcomes of swallowing rehabilitation in chronic brainstem dysphagia: a retrospective evaluation. [8, 9, 33, 40]. Signs and Symptoms of Dysphagia Watch for and make note First, the pathophysiology of injury is dissimilar: CVA-related damage is usually focal whereas lesions in TBI represent a complex mixture of focal injury combined with diffuse axonal injury (DAI), with or without hypoxic injury. Both techniques are effective tools for assessing dysphagia, detecting aspiration and trialing management strategies in patients with TBI [35]. Studies of ‘neurogenic dysphagia’ typically include heterogeneous subject groups, including subjects with cerebrovascular accident (CVA), progressive neurological diseases, brain tumors as well as TBI [19, 20]. 13, Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders (Dysphagia); and 15, Gerontology. Thompson-Henry S, Braddock B. Modifying bolus temperature alone will not alter swallowing physiology; [76, 85] however, application of cold and pressure to the faucial arches can increase the speed of the onset of tongue movement and the pharyngeal phase of the swallow in the short-term [86]. This article is a recent literature review of exercise-based therapy for swallowing disorders, including a particular focus on transcutaneous electrical stimulation. Robbins J, Kays GA, Gangnon RE, et al. Further research into the effect of long-term training is indicated [98]. Current Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Reports Much of the research regarding the management and treatment of dysphagia in general is in its infancy: larger and more rigorous studies are required to demonstrate treatment efficacy. Antunes EB, Lunet N. Effects of the head lift exercise on the swallow function: a systematic review. 2007;22:89–93. Swallowing dysfunction after tracheostomy. These impairments commonly occur in combination because ‘selective injury of particular neural tracts is rare.’ [100] In keeping with this, post-TBI oropharyngeal deficits could result from a variety of neuromuscular dysfunctions. The most frequent post-TBI oropharyngeal motor deficits are thought to be reduced range and/or control of tongue movements [11, 41, 42], in isolation or combined [32] with deficits such as delayed or absent pharyngeal swallow [6, 11, 32, 41–43]. Early TBI studies revealed that the most prevalent issue interfering with swallowing function was reduced cognition, followed by motor-control impairments [6]. Langmore SE, Schatz K, Olsen N. Endoscopic and videofluoroscopic evaluations of swallowing and aspiration. As well as diagnosing features of dysphagia, VFSS can assess the efficacy of management strategies, for example, varying the speed of bolus presentation [65] and/or the use of various postures (including chin down, head rotation, head tilt or lying down). we have offered more than one choice? 2010;136(8):784–9. Arend: The American Geriatrics Society has references attached to their position statement As with the postural adjustments, these maneuvers provide an ‘immediate but only transient approach to the underlying physiologic deficit.’ [81] The supraglottic swallow functions to close the vocal folds before and during the swallow [43] and clear bolus residue from the airway post-swallow [82]. Thus, postures may not be suitable for some patients with TBI. Swallowing disorders in severe brain injury: risk factors affecting return to oral intake. 2000;110:641–4. The benefits of using FEES are multiple, including its simplicity of use at the bedside [67, 68] and in ventilated patients [64]. Doeltgen SH, Macrae P, Huckabee M-L. Pharyngeal pressure generation during tongue-hold swallows across age groups. Dysphagia means difficulty swallowing. Consequence of dysphagia in the hospitalised patient. Confirmation of no causal relationship between tracheotomy and aspiration status: a direct replication study. However, the neuromuscular processes behind why improvement in is observed in these sEMG studies is not well understood [81] and further research is necessary [103, 105]. The argument against electrical stimulation for dysphagia. (Titled “Careful Hand Feeding: A Reasonable Alternative to PEG Tube Placement in Individuals For example, taking the history from the patient may reveal basic expressive and/or receptive language issues, as well as memory and orientation deficits. Stauffer J, Olson D, Pelta T. Complications and consequences for endotracheal intubation and tracheostomy: a prospective study of 150 critically ill adult patients. Tracheotomised patients with TBI are likely to be dysphagic because of their neurological impairment, medications [5], intercurrent medical co-morbidities [37], or a combination of these factors. our DON [director of nursing] and medical director ahead of time on what evidence Curr Phys Med Rehabil Rep 2, 219–230 (2014). are if the patient can’t swallow. As a bedside assessment, it is a simple and economical way of screening patients with tracheostomies for aspiration [73]. Lan Y, Ohkubo M, Berretin-Felix G, Sia I, Carnaby-Mann GD, Crary MA. Again, evidence demonstrating the efficacy, reliability and limitations of these maneuvers is limited [78]. 2008;25:719–38. 2012;196(1):40–5. else they want to eat or drink. Burkhead LM, Sapienza CM, Rosenbek JC. [email protected], Kate Krival, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an associate professor at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Cancers in the mouth, throat or esophagus can make it difficult to swallow. As Terre and Mearin [41] noted, ‘there is no specific treatment for TBI-related dysphagia,’ nor have randomized controlled trials examined treatment efficacy in TBI-exclusive populations [74•]. However, to be effective the patient must have sufficient behavioral control and cognitive-communication skills to attend to, comprehend and recall and sequence commands consistently [8, 9, 40]. I don’t mean to minimize J Head Trauma Rehabil. Studies suggested that even in the absence of neurological conditions, patients with tracheostomies risked dysphagia [56]. Heterogeneous subject groups, small subject numbers, lack of specificity of transcutaneous NMES at a tissue level [108] and differences in electrode placement and stimulation parameters are just a few of the reasons why better designed studies are required [94•] before the efficacy of this treatment option will be known. However, it was unclear whether these results were due to improvements at the ‘muscle level alone or neuroplastic modifications as well’ [93]. Swallowing disorders in trauma patients: impact of tracheostomy. the cases in which we as the SLP might be the ones recommending a transition toward Nagoya J Med Sci. Plus put a plan Tracheostomytube 6. CAS  Google Scholar. J Head Trauma Rehabil. 1998;13:69–81. regard to swallow safety. Fatigue 3. Swallowing dysfunction in patients receiving prolonged mechanical ventilation. Swallowing problems in adults with traumatic brain injury. A study by Robbins et al. Betts RH. Evidence-based systematic review: oropharyngeal dysphagia behavioral treatments. O’Suilleabhain P, Dewey RB. Download DYSPHAGIA … Schooling T. Systematic review of oral-motor exercise. Head Neck. 2nd ed. Effect of citric acid and citric acid-sucrose mixtures on swallowing in neurogenic oropharyngeal dysphagia. education. 1989;4(4):42–50. Brain Inj. Kate Krival: Mine would be that we manage our patients best by applying terrific evaluations and Terre and Mearin [7] undertook a longitudinal cohort study of swallowing recovery. 2002;17(3):220–41. 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