In healthy volunteers the Miami-J® cervical collar causes swallow dysfunction. This may increase the risk of aspiration; of particular potential consequence in older people with neck injury

In healthy volunteers the Miami-J® cervical collar causes swallow dysfunction. This may increase the risk of aspiration; of particular potential consequence in older people with neck injury

Background: In young healthy volunteers a cervical hard collar has been shown to change swallowing physiology. The risk of aspiration pneumonia increases with age. Methods: In this open prospective dual-arm controlled trial without randomisation there were 23 patients divided into two cohorts: 11 ol...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Murray A.J. Hudson, Jasmine Ehsanullah, Annabelle Lee, Nicola Macpherson, Aisha O'Gilvie, Alvin Shrestha, Kevin Tsang, Cerys Morgan, George Peck, Louis J. Koizia, Michael B. Fertleman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-09-01
Series:Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery
Subjects:
Cervical collar
Dysphagia
Video fluoroscopy
Older people
Aspiration pneumonia
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214751923000713

Internet

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214751923000713

Similar Items