The book is filled with "need-to-know" information and patient/staff education materials that busy clincians can use every day! The chapters in the book cover: - Preparing for a Patient Assessment
- Medicare Expectations and Other Billing Issues
- Screenings and Bedside/Clinical Evaluations
- Education and Advocacy: Patient/Family, Staff, Physicians, Administrators, and Payers
- Ethics: Decision Making in Rehabilitative and End-of-Life Situations
- Instrumental Assessment of Swallowing (Videofluoroscopic Swallow Studies and Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing [FEES®])
- Planning Dysphagia Treatment
- Documenting Treatment
- Special Considerations in Intensive Care
- Using Data to Manage Dysphagia
The book comes with a FREE CD of an additional 139 printable pages of therapy materials in PDF format, including: - Bedside Dysphagia Evaluation form
- FEES® Report form
- Modified Barium Swallow Report form
- Patient Interview form
- Case examples
- Patient/family education materials (e.g., What You'll See During a Modified Barium Swallow Study, How to Perform Safe Swallowing Exercises, LIfestyle Modifications for Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease)
- Handouts of Swallowing Guidelines (e.g., No Thin Liquids, Taking PO Meds, Silent Aspiration)
- Staff inservice on dysphagia
- Suctioning Competency Validation Tool
- Efficacy references
- Sample letters to physicians
- Referral forms
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