Intensive care unit-acquired dysphagia - change in feeding route after a standardized dysphagia assessment in neurocritical care patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dysphagia is a frequent finding on intensive care units (ICUs) and is associated with increased reintubation rates, pneumonia, and prolonged ICU-stay. Only a limited numbers of ICUs have access to a Speech and Language Pathologist (SLP). Hence, it falls upon the critical care team to estimate dysphagia risk and define the safest feeding route. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate if the feeding route established by the ICU-team is changed after a standardized dysphagia assessment (DA) by an SLP. Furthermore, we tried to identify predictors for the need of a SLP assessment looking at the change in feeding route (CIFR) after DA.

Methods

We performed a retrospective analysis of patients consecutively admitted for at least 48 h in 2018, to the ICU of the D

SUBMITTER: Reitz SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11612384 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature