Dysphagia

As individuals with dysphagia exhibit increasing difficulty to swallow pills, many people, including medical professionals, have decided to crush up various pills into pieces and sprinkle the pieces onto food to ease the swallow of a person with dysphagia. While this method works for some drugs, other drugs can cause harm when they are digested after being crushed into pieces. Crushing…

Why is Sharon is experiencing the following signs/symptoms? Please provide the specific pathophysiology. (4 points) •Jaundice: Jaundice occurs when your liver doesn’t metabolize bilirubin the way it’s supposed to. Accumulation of bilirubin or its conjugates in body tissues produces jaundice, which is characterized by high plasma bilirubin levels and deposition of yellow bilirubin pigments in the skin and other tissues. Jaundice caused during the hepatic phase can arise from abnormalities in the…

ability to breathe effectively on her own. Each of these progression types, eventually lead to the other. If it is limb-onset, the later stages will include the beginning signs of bulbar, and vice versa. In the first patient, she began to experience dysphagia three years after diagnosis. In the second, she was unable to walk within two years of diagnosis. According to the ALS Association, the first signs and symptoms of the disease typically occur around 40-70 years of age and is 20% more common…

managing dysphagia and swallowing related toxicities experienced by patients undergoing treatment for HNC (Pauloski, 2008). Guiding SLP intervention is a body of research which has documented the nature and severity of dysphagia and treatment-related toxicities experienced by patients undergoing HNC management. However, although a growing body of evidence is available to inform clinical management, the majority of studies to date have explored treatment-related toxicities and dysphagia in…

progressive decline poor appetite and dysphagia, with result in PEG tube place for supplemental feeding of glucerna 240 mg bolus every 6 hours. She had brain surgery earlier this year, after having a fall at home and diagnostic head CT showed large 10 cm parietal cystic lesion, shifting the brain structure midline with a shift 12 mm of the right side shift of the septum and a large arachnoid cyst in the area. Her other medical history includes HTN, dysphagia, NIDDM, major depression, muscle…

The larynx’s main function is to provide airway, protect thr bronchial tree and to allow phonation. When there are growths that develop on the structure, the function is compromised. Laryngeal Cancer is characterized as a disease where masses, cancer cells, begin to accumulate in the larynx. Laryngeal Cancer is a very rare type of cancer, according to cancerresearchuk, approximately twenty-four thousand of patients are diagnosed with Laryngeal Cancer in a year, which is relatively two to five…

and oral-motor treatments (Arvedson, 1998). However, for newborns, especially those in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), many of these strategies are inapplicable. The most appropriate and utilized management techniques for newborns with dysphagia are changing positioning and posture, pacing and cue-based strategies, altering the rate of flow, making equipment changes, adjusting feeding schedules, and tube feeding (Arvedson, 1998). Altering positioning and posture is an effective…

hypoxia. On 8/28/16 she had a left and right cardiac cath because of dyspnea and congestive heart failure. Her other medical history includes NIDDM, Afib, CVA with right sides hemiparesis, MI, GAD, dementia, bipolar, chronic ischemic heart disease, dysphagia, cognitive communication deficit, hyperlipidemia and GERD. At todays visit she is found in her room lying in bed at Tiffany hall SNF. She is awake, alert; she appears SOB with difficulties verbalizing her self. She is oxygen dependent at…

with the unique SLP role in palliative care. Discussed in depth in this article is the concept of a consult. There are numerous different reasons a speech language pathologist could be called in for a consult such as various communication needs or dysphagia. Framework Palliative care is provided to patients who are terminally ill; the goal is to relieve suffering and maximize their quality of life. A speech language pathologist is on the palliative care team and has varying roles from patient…

weakness. Patients often have involvement of their ocular (eye) and bulbar muscles. The bulbar muscles are located in the head and are important for chewing and swallowing. Symptoms often include double vision, eyelid drooping, slurred speech, and dysphagia (trouble swallowing) due to muscle fatigue – this is particularly worse at the end of the day. Patients may have acute flares of disease referred to as “myasthenic crisis.” During these episodes, patients have muscle weakness involving…