The Scope
Dysphagia Blog that goes Beyond the Swallow
10 Things I Never Learned in Graduate School
But what does the patient think? Discussing Patient Autonomy in Healthcare
My Patient is Aspirating. What do I do now?
Medications and Dysphagia: A match made in polypharmacy
Is Every Pneumonia Aspiration Pneumonia?
Is every pneumonia aspiration pneumonia? There are two camps on this one. Some believe that since any and all pneumonia requires an outside pathogen to be sucked into the airway then all pulmonary infections should be considered aspiration pneumonia. I believe that this is short-sighted and defeats the purpose of what we are trying to do with pneumonia diagnosis and management.