The Source for DysphagiaThird Edition

Description

Ages: Adult

This best-selling book is a practical resource that gives you an evidence-based, working knowledge of the evaluation and treatment of dysphagia plus tools to organize your dysphagia services. The Source for DysphagiaThird Edition is filled with "need-to-know" information and patient/staff education materials that busy clincians can use every day!

The chapters in the book cover:

• Preparing for a Patient Assessment
• Medicare Expectations and Other Billing Issues
• Screenings and Bedside/Clinical Evaluations
• Education and Advocacy: Patient/Family, Staff, Physicians, Administrators, and Payers
• Ethics: Decision Making in Rehabilitative and End-of-Life Situations
• Instrumental Assessment of Swallowing (Videofluoroscopic Swallow Studies and Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing [FEES])
• Planning Dysphagia Treatment
• Documenting Treatment
• Special Considerations in Intensive Care
• Using Data to Manage Dysphagia

The book comes with online access to an additional 139 printable pages of therapy materials in PDF format, including:

• Bedside Dysphagia Evaluation form
• FEES Report form
• Modified Barium Swallow Report form
• Patient Interview form
• Case examples
• Patient/family education materials (e.g., What You'll See During a Modified Barium Swallow Study, How to Perform Safe Swallowing Exercises, LIfestyle Modifications for Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease)
• Handouts of Swallowing Guidelines (e.g., No Thin Liquids, Taking PO Meds, Silent Aspiration)
• Staff inservice on dysphagia
• Suctioning Competency Validation Tool
• Efficacy references
• Sample letters to physicians
• Referral forms

To see more of this product's contents:

• Table of Contents
  
• Introduction
• Sample Pages
• About the Author

191-page book 2007