The challenges of dysphagia management and rehabilitation after extensive thermal burn injury: A complex case

Journal of Burn Care and Research

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 901-905

  Rumbach, Anna F ^a   Ward, Elizabeth C ^a   Cornwell, Petrea L ^a,b   Bassett, Lynell V ^c   Muller, Michael J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; BURN; CASE REPORT; CONTRACTURE; DYSPHAGIA; GASTROSTOMY; HUMAN; MALE; RANGE OF MOTION; SPEECH THERAPY; TRACHEOSTOMY;

BURNS; CONTRACTURE; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 70349684599     PISSN: 1559047X     EISSN: 15590488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCR.0b013e3181b487e0     Document Type: Article

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