In response to members' significant concerns and their request for an examination of the
evidence relating to oropharyngeal dysphagia assessment, aerosol-generating procedures …

Sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM) is a heterogeneous progressive inflammatory
muscle disease impacting skeletal muscles in the head, neck, and limbs. Use of valid …

Purpose This clinical focus article considers the roles of the clinical swallow examination
(CSE) as a clinically meaningful assessment method used in both adult and pediatric …

Purpose: Voluntary cough dysfunction is highly prevalent across multiple patient
populations. Voluntary cough has been utilized as a screening tool for swallowing safety …

Purpose To identify how speech‐language pathologists (SLPs) in the United States are
screening for and identifying dysphagia. To do this, we examined the approaches most often …

Introduction: Universally established comprehensive clinical bulbar scales objectively
assessing disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are currently lacking …

Background Progressive motor denervation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) leads to
reduced expiratory cough flow and diminished airway clearance physiologic capacity …

Background Postextubation dysphagia is a known consequence of endotracheal intubation.
Several risk factors for postextubation dysphagia have been identified that could be used to …

Introduction This systematic review summarises and appraises methods of citric acid cough
reflex testing (CRT) documented in published literature. Methods Electronic databases …

Background: South African speech-language therapists are the only health professionals
charged with dysphagia rehabilitation. However, registered nurses and doctors are often …