[Dysphagia] barium and gastrographine

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Someone wrote:

<< Is it not Gastromyro the should be used instead of barium in high risk

cases? >>

http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/reprint/174/5/1409
Partik et al. were researching patients who had long term intubation and were 
not specifically evaluating whether gastromiro were "better."  But they did 
use gastromiro FIRST, and then IF the patient aspirated, they switched to 
barium sulfate.  (See page 2, column 1.  It's great when one can download free full 
text!)

psmith