The Scope
Dysphagia Blog that goes Beyond the Swallow
Is Your Team Helping or Hurting Your Patients? 3 Keys to Effective Teamwork
My SLP Isn't Listening: 5 tips for better communication
Three Pillars of Preparedness: How do you prepare for BIG dysphagia risks?
Puree and Nectar Forever: Taking the fear out of fear-based medicine
The Black Death of Childbirth: What can it tell us about dysphagia?
I Feel Clueless: What can I do when I feel helpless with my patient?
Avoiding Risk-Aversion: Can 3 simple questions change a patient’s life?
We All Scream for Ice Cream: But does that include patients on thickened liquids?
10 Things I Never Learned in Graduate School
PO or NPO? How do you decide when the stakes are high?
But what does the patient think? Discussing Patient Autonomy in Healthcare
My Patient is Aspirating. What do I do now?
Medications and Dysphagia: A match made in polypharmacy
Is Every Pneumonia Aspiration Pneumonia?
Is every pneumonia aspiration pneumonia? There are two camps on this one. Some believe that since any and all pneumonia requires an outside pathogen to be sucked into the airway then all pulmonary infections should be considered aspiration pneumonia. I believe that this is short-sighted and defeats the purpose of what we are trying to do with pneumonia diagnosis and management.
Should the SLP trial thickened liquids without a swallow study?
The Wrong Pipe: Aspiration’s final destination
Pill Swallowing: You’re not the only one who has trouble
NPO Except for Meds: Is this a safe recommendation?
Wave Goodbye to the Diet Waiver
