10/26/2023· Speech-Language Pathology
Dehydration and Thickened Liquids
By: Megan M. Hamilton, MS, CCC-SLP
As with most medical interventions, thickened liquids have both benefits and weaknesses. Recent research demonstrates that patients consuming thickened liquids consume less than patients consuming thin liquids and are frequently dehydrated. There are several reasons postulated for this decrease in liquid intake...
8/17/2023· Speech-Language Pathology
Common Manifestation Of Death By Choking
By: Megan M. Hamilton, MS, CCC-SLP
It is not uncommon for documentation or discussion to use the term “choking” to describe instances in which food or liquid went “down the wrong pipe” or a significant cough occurred. Those instances are not, in fact, choking in the sense of foreign body airway obstruction that leads to death by asphyxiation.
by Timothy W. Monsees
by Donald Sanders, DVM, DACT, PAS
by Chuck Easttom
