How a personalised transportable folding device for seating impacts dysphagia.

Virginie WoisardMireille CostesHélène ColineauxBenoit Lepage

Published in: European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (2019)

The personalised transportable folding device for seating developed to reduce dysphagia has an action on hyoid bone motion during swallowing. However, this positive effect on an intermediate outcome criterion of the quality of swallowing was not associated with an improvement in swallowing efficiency in the study population. The diversity of diseases with which the patients in this study were afflicted is a factor to be controlled in future studies with this device.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
chronic kidney disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
high resolution
quality improvement
current status
patient reported
case control