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Therapeutic Nutrition Assignment 1-Dysphagia
BAFS3523 - Therapeutic Nutrition
38 Pages • Essays / Projects • Year Uploaded: 2023
Therapeutic nutrition management is important for dysphagia patients to prevent malnutrition, improve their quality of life, safety and ease of oral intake. Serious complications such as aspiration pneumonia can result if patients are provided with inappropriate detection and treatment in the early stage (Miwa & Chung, 2021). And, this is the problem that Nora encountered due to the screening protocol not being followed. Based on the video, Nora has difficulties and coughing during swallowing, thus, nasogastric tube feeding is required. The requirements for starting nasogastric tube feeding are detailed in Figure 1 below (Kim et al., 2018). However, if she had lower risk of aspiration or passed the swallowing test, a switch from gastrointestinal tube feeding to oral feeding was encouraged
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