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Patients on neurological intensive care units (NICU) who require ventilatory support often suffer from co-existing bulbar dysfunction, either because of their underlying disease or because of their decreased level of consciousness. For this reason, most patients are ventilated through a cuffed tracheostomy tube, which allows a degree of protection from tracheal aspiration of saliva and gastric contents. Patients who are awake often complain of thirst, but traditionally are only offered oral fluids when the cuff of the tracheostomy tube has been deflated. Given that many patients in NICU cannot tolerate cuff deflation, a reliable technique is needed to assess the adequacy of the patient's swallow and therefore the risk of aspiration when the tracheostomy cuff is inflated.

A pilot study of fibreoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing in patients with cuffed tracheostomies in neurological intensive care