[Dysphagia] FYI: Neuro exam infants andchildrenvideopresentations online

[EThompson at mountnittany.org (Thompson, Elana)]

I was hoping to get that response from Irene since I have read it before.  
 
I guess that is why I was wondering why the doctors at that subscriber's workplace would automatically make a patient NPO or put him/her on the puree/honey diet just because an SLP is not there for the weekend.  It doesn't make sense that those would be the only two solutions to having no weekend coverage.  It seems to me to be a disservice to the patient.  
 
We have no weekend coverage, per say, at the acute care facility in which I work and the doctors will either keep a person NPO if that is called for or will start a diet like clear liquids or even soft regular and then will have the SLP eval on Monday.  We do not have an increased number of pneumonias or deaths by not using thickeners and puree as some sort of false safety net.

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From: Irene Campbell-Taylor [mailto:eripley@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thu 8/10/2006 8:34 AM
To: Thompson, Elana; Erin Powazek; jsaunt@hotmail.com; dysphagia@b9.com
Subject: RE: [Dysphagia] FYI: Neuro exam infants andchildrenvideopresentations online




"Thompson, Elana" <EThompson@mountnittany.org> wrote: 

	What makes a puree diet with honey-thickened liquids safe?
	 
	*** Who says that it is "safe"?  What evidence is there?

	Is there evidenced-based data that that is a clinically safer diet?
	 
	*** There are no evidence-based data in oropharyngeal dysphagia.
	
	



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