TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dziewas, Rainer
A1  - Glahn, Jörg
A1  - Helfer, Christine
A1  - Ickenstein, Guntram
A1  - Keller, Jochen
A1  - Ledl, Christian
A1  - Lindner-Pfleghar, Beate
A1  - Nabavi, Darius G.
A1  - Prosiegel, Mario
A1  - Riecker, Axel
A1  - Lapa, Sriramya
A1  - Stanschus, Sönke
A1  - Warnecke, Tobias
A1  - Busse, Otto
T1  - Flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) for neurogenic dysphagia: training curriculum of the German Society of Neurology and the German stroke society
T2  - BMC medical education
N2  - Neurogenic dysphagia is one of the most frequent and prognostically relevant neurological deficits in a variety of disorders, such as stroke, parkinsonism and advanced neuromuscular diseases. Flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) is now probably the most frequently used tool for objective dysphagia assessment in Germany. It allows evaluation of the efficacy and safety of swallowing, determination of appropriate feeding strategies and assessment of the efficacy of different swallowing manoeuvres. The literature furthermore indicates that FEES is a safe and well-tolerated procedure. In spite of the huge demand for qualified dysphagia diagnostics in neurology, a systematic FEES education has not yet been established. The structured training curriculum presented in this article aims to close this gap and intends to enforce a robust and qualified FEES service. As management of neurogenic dysphagia is not confined to neurologists, this educational programme is applicable to other clinicians and speech–language therapists with expertise in dysphagia as well. The systematic education in carrying out FEES across a variety of different professions proposed by this curriculum will help to spread this instrumental approach and to improve dysphagia management.
KW  - Nervous system diseases
KW  - Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing
KW  - Muscular diseases
KW  - Stroke
KW  - Clinical competence
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30642
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306423
SN  - 1472-6920
N1  - This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
VL  - 16
IS  - 70
SP  - 1
EP  - 9
PB  - BioMed Central
CY  - London
ER  -