Videofluoroscopic swallowing examination
Position statements and guidelines about the role of the speech pathologist in making and interpreting videofluoroscpy studies of swallowing are published by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) in 2004 and the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (RCSLT) in 2013.
Recipes for barium consistencies are available on the website of Catriona Steele.
Also protocols are available, e.g. the MBSimP protocol, a 12-swallow protocol.
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Countless examples are available on YouTube (search term e.g. videofluoroscopic swallow study).
An excellent state-of-the-art update is the post-graduate course preceeding the congress of the Dysphagia Research Society (DRS) in 2013 in Seattle.
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Endoscopic swallowing examination
Position statements and guidelines about the role of the speech-language pathologist in making and interpreting of flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) are published by ASHA in 2004, RCSLT in 2015 and Speech Patholgy Australia in 2007.
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Examples of endoscopic swallowing studies are available on YouTube (search terms e.g. flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing).