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Adapting Human Videofluoroscopic Swallow Study Methods to Detect and Characterize Dysphagia in Murine Disease Models
Published on: March 1, 2015
Clinical Indicators of Impaired Swallowing in Children with Neurological Disorders
Renan Alves Silva1, Viviane Martins da Silva2, Marcos Venícios Oliveira Lopes2
1Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Objective:
To investigate the clinical indicators of the nursing diagnosis impaired swallowing in children with neurological disorders.
Methods:
An integrative review was performed on the Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, Lilacs and Cinahl databases; by crossing the terms impaired degluition, dyphagia, deglutition disorders, cerebral palsy, microcephaly, which resulted in 45 articles.
Results:
Eighteen indicators were identified in the oral phase, ten in the pharyngeal phase, and nine in the esophageal phase. There was a percentage of 80.4% of the indicators cited in NANDA-International, especially those referring to the oral phase.
Conclusions:
There are clinical indicators in both phases of impaired swallowing in children with neurological dysfunctions presenting heterogeneous distribution.
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