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Medications and Dysphagia: How Do They Impact Each Other?
Author(s) -
Brandt Nicole
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
nutrition in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1941-2452
pISSN - 0884-5336
DOI - 10.1177/0884533699014005s06
Subject(s) - medicine , dysphagia , intensive care medicine , surgery
Medications can improve or worsen the signs of dysphagia. Understanding the pathophysiology of dysphagia as well as the pharmacology of the medications will heighten clinicians' awareness to this often misunderstood syndrome. This article briefly addresses both of these issues.