By: Karen Sheffler
Diet Safety: Terminology & Definitions Matters! By Karen Sheffler, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S of SwallowStudy.com (updated 2024 with IDDSI's new website links) This blog was inspired by my own frustrations with different non-standardized diet names across different...
Is Evidence-Based Practice Misunderstood? By Karen Sheffler, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S Blog also appeared on GrayMatterTherapy.com 12/9/14. Re-printed with permission from GrayMatterTherapy.com Session Reviewed: Rosenbek, J. & Leslie, P. (2014, November). 1182: Ethics...
From Table to Stomach and Everything in Between: Striving for Mealtime Success Guest Post by: Samantha Shune, PhD, CCC-SLP It is Monday morning. I plop my lunch bag down on my desk and spend the next several hours running in and out of my office paying it no further...
by Karen Sheffler, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S of SwallowStudy.com This blog was inspired by: “Esophageal Screening: The Essential Last Step in Your Dysphagia Evaluation,” by Ashli O'Rourke, MD, April 13, 2014, at ASHA's Health Care & Business Institute in Las Vegas, NV....
C2-C7 Angle and Dysphagia by Karen Sheffler, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S of SwallowStudy.com Will you or your patient be at risk for dysphagia after cervical spine surgery? I suggest reading this review of the following article: Tian, W. & Yu, J. (2013). The role of C2-C7...
HPV is Changing the Face of Head and Neck Cancer: Emerging Epidemic! by Karen Sheffler, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S of SwallowStudy.com (last updated April 25, 2017) Young people who do not smoke do NOT get cancer, right? Wrong. We need to have the talk -- about sex...
Oral Infection Control / Oral Care Procedures for the Dependent Patient © 2014 Karen Sheffler of SwallowStudy.com Perform every shift (before/after meals as needed) Oral Care Tools: Toothbrush (on suction if available), swabs (on suction if available), extra...
How to Perform Effective Oral Care for Aspiration Pneumonia Prevention by Karen Sheffler, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, at SwallowStudy.com Only 16% of nurses reported that they brush a patient's teeth every 4 hours, and 33% reported brushing “rarely or not at all” (Cason, et...
Part III of Oral Hygiene and Aspiration Pneumonia Prevention. By Karen Sheffler, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S As we are coming and going from our summer vacations, consider the travels that bacteria may take around the body. The germs in the mouth are the same germs that travel...
Part II: Oral Microbiome and Saliva By Karen Sheffler, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S. SwallowStudy.com I was out in the beautiful pacific northwest the summer of 2014, learning about the region's flora, fauna, volcanos and glaciers. Especially interesting was visiting Mount...