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标题：Towards a basic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing in acute stroke – identification of salient findings by the inexperienced examiner
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作者：Tobias Warnecke ; Inga Teismann ; Stephan Oelenberg 等
期刊名称：BMC Medical Education
印刷版ISSN：1472-6920
出版年度：2009
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：1-7
DOI：10.1186/1472-6920-9-13
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：Dysphagia is common after stroke. Fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) is a powerful tool for dysphagia assessment. The purpose of this study was to assess whether a previously established endoscopic examination protocol based on the identification of typical findings indicative of stroke – related dysphagia may be learned and adopted by clinicians so far inexperienced in this field. After receiving a structured lecture on this topic, participants were asked to rate video sequences of endoscopic swallowing examinations of acute stroke patients. The first part of the testing ("single findings-rating") comprised of 16 single sequences, the second part ("complete examination-rating") presented the key sequences of 8 complete examinations. Before the second part was started, results of the first were discussed. At the "single findings-rating" 88.8% of video-sequences were assessed correctly, while at the "complete examination-rating" the average performance had improved to 96%. Furthermore, no overlooking of relevant pathologies was noted in the second part of the testing. This study suggests that the presented endoscopic examination protocol is reliably interpreted by inexperienced clinicians after a short lecture and may therefore easily and successfully be adopted in dysphagia management of acute stroke care.
关键词：Acute Stroke;Acute Stroke Patient;Sinus Pyriformis;Salient Finding;Brainstem Infarction