Final Flashcards
Maneuvers
Are used to help patient swallow more effectively. Require that the patient be able to follow complex commands, but can be broken down into smaller steps. Practice as exercises and use as in assessment and treatment. Check under floro or FEES to determine effectiveness.
Supraglottic Swallow
Is a breath hold technique. Targets reduced or late vocal fold closure. Closes vocal cords before and during the swallow, protecting the airway from aspiration. May be used in oral cancer patients but have to trigger the swallow a different way due to reduced tongue mobility.
Directions for Supraglottic Swallow
Take a deep breath and hold your breath. Keep holding your breath. Keeping holding your breath while you swallow. Immediately after swallowing patient should cough.
Super Supraglottic Swallow
Is a breath hold technique. Closes entrance to the airway by tilting arytenoid cartilage to base of epiglottis before and during swallow. Used in patient with reduced vocal fold closure or those who have a superglottic laryngectomy. Improves rate of laryngeal elevation. Is helpful for those who have had radiation to the neck.
Super Supraglottic Swallow Directions
Inhale, hold breath, bear down. Keep holding breath and continue to bear down as you swallow. Cough when finished.
Mendehlson
Improves swallow coordination and eeppiglotic inversion. Increases extent of laryngeal elevation and increases width and duration of UES opening.
Mendehlson Directions
Swallow saliva several times and pay attention to the way your neck acts as you swallow. Tell clinican if you can feel your voicebox/Adam’s apple rise and fall. Now this time when you swallow and you feel the voicebox/Adam’s apple lift keep it there and do not let fall. Hold it for several seconds.
Effortful Swallow
Helps with tongue base retraction. Increases lingual force, improves bolus clearance, and reduces residue form the vallecule.
Effortful Swallow Directions
As you swallow squeeze hard with all of your muscles.
Extended Supraglottic Swallow (Dump and Swallow)
Used for triggering of pharyngeal swallow. Like a normal swallow taking constitutive sips from a cup. As confidence increases so does the bolus size.
Extended Supraglottic Swallow (Dump and Swallow)
Hold breath. Put in 5cc/10cc in mouth. Hold breath and toss head back. Swallow 2-3 times or as many as necessary to clear majority of the bolus while holding your breath. Cough to clear residue.
Positions for Swallowing
May be combined with maneuvers to help increase ability to swallow.
Chin Tuck
Tuck the chin. Forces the entryway to the airway to narrow. Is used to target a delayed swallow.
Head Rotation
Turn the head to either direction to force the bolus down the opposite side. Used for patients with unilateral weaknesses on one side of the throat or if they have a paralyzed vocal fold on side. Rotate the head to the weak side and thus force the bolus to go down the stronger side of the throat.
Head Extension
Raise the chin when swallowing and gravity causes the bolus to move towards the pharynx. Widens the oropharynx and may be helpful in moving the bolus from the mouth to the pharynx when oral/lingual deficits are present. Good for patients who have had lossectomy/oral resections, reconstruction, or lingual paralysis.
Laying Down/Side Lying
Decreases the effect of gravity during the swallow or on post swallow residue. May be applied when a difference in pharyngeal function is noted between right and left side. Uses gravity to direct the bolus to the stronger hemipharynx. Increased hypopharyneal pressure on the bolus leads to increased maxium opening of the PES and reduced duration of sphincter opening during the swallow.
Oral Prep Stage
Break down food to a consistency appropriate or swallowing. Mixes food with saliva. Starts with visual and sensory recognition of food. Also includes mastication.
Starts- When you see food.
Ends- When tongue moves posteriorly and chewing stops.
Cranial Nerves in Oral Prep Stage
V-Trigeminal
VII- Facial
X- Vagus
XII- Hypoglossal
Oral Stage
Main component of this stage is propulsion. A stripping action of the pharyngeal wall occurs. A good labial seal is needed for propulsion. Propels the food between the palate and the tongue. Minimal coating on the tongue. 1-2 seconds longs.
Starts- when tongue moves posteriorly.
Ends- triggering of the pharyngeal swallow.
Oral Stage Cranial Nerve
XII Hypoglossal
Pharyngeal (Key Activities)
Closure of VP Port Tongue Base Retraction Elevation of hyoid and larynx. Closure of larynx and VP Relaxation and opening of UES.
Pharyngeal Stage
Starts when swallow is triggered when the tongue base and faucil arches pass the lower rim of the ramus. Lasts a total of one second. Ends when the UES opens.
Pharyngeal Cranial Nerves
IX Glosspharyngeal
X Vagus
XI Spinal Accessory
Esophageal Stage
Voluntary. Primary, secondary, and tertiary perstalsis. Starts when the UES opens. Ends when bolus passes into the stomach.
Oral Examination
Check oral hygiene, dentition, xerostomia, thrush. Do not proceed if there is poor hygiene. Take care of then treat.
Oral Motor Exam
Do to test cranial nerves.
Other things to check for in oral & oral motor exam.
Dysarthria. Apraxia. Vocal quality. Respiration functioning. Protective reflexes.
What do you do first for a patient who is NPO?
Make sure the mouth is moist. Make sure there is adequate hydration and good oral hygiene. Look at physical appearance of the patient.
MBS Standard Protocall
Thin liquids-5cc, repeat 5cc , cup sip single, sequential swallow from cup or straw sip.
Nectar thickened- 5cc, cup sip single, sequential swallow.
Honey thickened- 5 cc.
Pudding- 1tbs.
1/2 cookie coated with barium.
1/2 cookie and 1 tbs pudding.
Exceptions for Neurogenic Patients
Aspirate on thin liquids start with pureed then proceed to thin liquids, then solids.
Exceptions for Respiratory and Artificial Airways
Start with thin liquids no matter what. Are at a high risk for aspiration. High risk for aspiration no matter what and thinner are easier to aspirate than solid. Easier to clear than solid and regain control and breathing after aspirating liquid.
When testing a patient for swallow evaluation you should always make sure that your information is
Reliable and reproducible.
When do you discontinue bedside swallow evaluation? (7)
Absent swallow-12 seconds.
Severe coughing or choking which they cannot recover from.
Absent laryngeal elevation.
Significant respiratory distress and vomiting.
Drop in O2 stats.
Fear of swallowing that cannot be remediated.
Patient cannot maintain alertness.
Detailed Bedside Exam (6)
Bedside Swallow, History, Patient Interview, Cognition, Oral Exam, Preparation for Swallowing, Other.