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[Dysphagia] VFSS



Our facility refuses to even discuss the use of clysis.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Irene Campbell-Taylor" <eripley at yahoo.com>
To: <dysphagia at b9.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 3:15 PM
Subject: [Dysphagia] VFSS


There seems to be a misunderstanding about VFSS and real meals. It's not 
that it's only a moment in time, it's that in NO WAY does it reflect what 
happens when a meal is being eaten. It doesn't matter how many trials you 
have of how many consistencies, it will never show what happens in real 
life. This has been shown repeatedly by Groher, Jones and Donner, Dua and 
others and is what leads to false positives as well as false negatives. As 
to what one does with the patient who coughs on thin liquids,.    At the 
risk of being repetitive, clysis is the usual answer to fluid maintenance in 
the rest of the world: See:
  Guidelines for the administration of subcutaneous fluids (hypodermoclysis) 
to adult patients in the community (Please note: in the community)
  http://www.leedspct.nhs.uk/archive/east/attachment/00000000abc3a292817efac1a68ba2a4/0000000077869cd00183e189f3a5caad/PL+010+SUBCUT+Fluids+Guideline.pdf_
  _AND___
  _____http://www.leedspct.nhs.uk/archive/northeast/attachment/00000000edcf3591017443e65dddbba8/000000006f897f618d249b47cf5e73f0/PL010+Sc+Guideline.pdf________________________________________________________
  Age and Ageing 2005; 34: 215-217
  Hypodermoclysis-a victim of historical prejudice
  PRANOY BARUA, BIMAL K. BHOWMICK
  Abstract
  Hypodermoclysis (HDC) had fallen into disrepute after adverse clinical 
incidents that were obviously the result of improper use of an ingenious 
technique. HDC has clear advantages over alternative parenteral routes. It 
has stood the rigor of scientific
  scrutiny but failed to regain its past glory. This is possibly because of 
our ignorance and inability to detach ourselves from an age-old prejudice. 
This is an attempt to demystify some of the myths that surround it. The hope 
is that older people are not denied an element of health care that they are 
perhaps most well suited to.
  _____AND one of the guidelines I cited yesterday:
  GUIDELINE TITLE
  Dehydration and fluid maintenance.
  BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCE(S)
  American Medical Directors Association (AMDA). Dehydration and fluid 
maintenance. Columbia (MD): American Medical Directors Association (AMDA); 
2001. 28 p. [15 references
  GUIDELINE OBJECTIVE(S)
  To improve the quality of care delivered to patients in long-term care 
facilities
  To guide the identification and management of dehydration and 
fluid/electrolyte imbalance in older adults residing in the long-term care 
settings
  To present approaches that attempt to minimize the occurrence of 
dehydration and fluid/electrolyte imbalance
  Management of specific deficits and imbalances, as indicated, such as 
fluid and electrolyte replacements or fluid restrictions. Fluid replacement 
may be by various routes, including oral, hypodermoclysis, nasogastric or 
gastrostomy tube or intravenous

  AND re VFSS and meals:
   Dua KS; Ren J; Bardan E; Xie P; Shaker R. Coordination  of deglutitive 
glottal function and pharyngeal bolus transit during normal 
eating.Gastroenterology, 112:73-83  1997
  AND
  Groher M. The detection of aspiration. Dysphagia, 9; 147. 1994
  Martin-Harris ; Logemann et al. The clinical utility of the modified 
barium swallow. Dysphagia 15; 2000. 136.
  JonesB, Donner M. Normal and abnormal swallowing, Springer 1999.



Dr I Campbell-Taylor
Clinical Neuroscientist
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