Effect of Bolus Viscosity on the Safety and Efficacy of Swallowing and the Kinematics of the Swallow Response in Patients with Oropharyngeal Dysphagia: White Paper by the European Society for Swallowing Disorders (ESSD)

Dysphagia

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 232-249

  Newman, Roger ^a,e   Vilardell, Natàlia ^b,e   Clavé, Pere ^a,b,c,e   Speyer, Renée ^a,d,e  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e European Society for Swallowing Disorders (ESSD)   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deglutition; Deglutition disorders; Kinetics; Review; Rheology; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

BOLUS VISCOSITY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; EDITORIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FLOW KINETICS; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; LARYNGEAL PENETRATION; OROPHARYNGEAL DYSPHAGIA; PALATABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; SCORING SYSTEM; SWALLOWING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VIDEOFLUOROSCOPY; VISCOSITY; BIOMECHANICS; EUROPE; FOOD; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERISTALSIS; PHARYNX; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; DEGLUTITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; EUROPE; FOOD; HUMANS; PERISTALSIS; PHARYNX; REACTION TIME; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84961575299     PISSN: 0179051X     EISSN: 14320460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00455-016-9696-8     Document Type: Editorial

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