A Pilot Study of Change in Laryngeal Cough Threshold Sensitivity and PAS(Penetration Aspiration Scale) Score Within the Acute Stage

Background: Cough Reflex Testing (CRT) has been shown to be useful in the challenging task of identifying silent aspiration (aspiration without a cough response). With the emergence of the routine clinical use of CRT in the acute stroke population, the following clinical conundrum often arises: Does...

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Main Author: McFarlane, Mary
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Speech and language science 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10734