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Successful treatment of intubation-induced severe neurogenic post-extubation dysphagia using Pharyngeal Electrical Stimulation in a COVID-19 survivor: a case report
2020-10-23
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background </bold>A significant portion of critically ill patients with COVID-19 are at high risk of developing ICU-acquired swallowing dysfunction (neurogenic dysphagia) as a consequence of requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation. Pharyngeal Electrical Stimulation (PES) is a simple and safe treatment for neurogenic dysphagia. Previously it has been shown that PES can restore s...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ddc32092-6eb4-5d9e-9c93-4c72b4c277e9
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-96811/v1
