Research report: Management of dysphagia using pharyngeal electrical stimulation in the general intensive care population - A service development.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dysphagia places a substantial burden on the critically ill, affecting 12%-84% of this cohort, and is independently associated with worse outcomes. Pharyngeal electrical stimulation (PES-treatment) is a novel dysphagia therapy with an emerging evidence base. This retrospective observational study describes our dysphagia service and reports the use of PES-treatment as a standard of care in recovering critically ill patients at a single-site tertiary UK hospital.

Methods

Patients admitted to Acute or Cardio-Thoracic adult intensive care units between 1st July 2017 and 30th June 2022 were routinely referred to Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) following tracheostomy, or suspected dysphonia/dysphagia. Clinical assessments and direct laryngeal visualisation using Fibre

SUBMITTER: Williams T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11549722 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature