Management of dysphagia in the patient with head and neck cancer during COVID-19 pandemic : Practical strategy

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The global pandemic of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has tremendously altered routine medical service provision and imposed unprecedented challenges to the health care system. This impacts patients with dysphagia complications caused by head and neck cancers. As this pandemic of COVID-19 may last longer than severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, a practical workflow for managing dysphagia is crucial to ensure a safe and efficient practice to patients and health care personnel. This document provides clinical practice guidelines based on available evidence to date to balance the risks of SARS-CoV-2 exposure with the risks associated with dysphagia. Critical considerations include reserving instrumental assessments for urgent cases only, optimizing the noninstrumental swallowing evaluation, appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE), and use of telehealth when appropriate. Despite significant limitations in clinical service provision during the pandemic of COVID-19, a safe and reasonable dysphagia care pathway can still be implemented with modifications of setup and application of newer technologies.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:42

Enthalten in:

Head & neck - 42(2020), 7 vom: 15. Juli, Seite 1491-1496

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ku, Peter K M [VerfasserIn]
Holsinger, Floyd Christopher [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Jason Y K [VerfasserIn]
Yeung, Zenon W C [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Becky Y T [VerfasserIn]
Tong, Michael C F [VerfasserIn]
Starmer, Heather M [VerfasserIn]

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25BB7EKE2E
Barium Sulfate
COVID-19
Contrast Media
Coronavirus
Dysphagia
Head and neck
Journal Article
Management

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Date Completed 20.07.2020

Date Revised 18.12.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/hed.26224

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM309324289