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Drugs and Dysphagia: How Medications Can Affect Eating and Swallowing (Text)

This pocket-sized reference is for clinicians who manage patients with dysphagia. Speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, physicians, clinical dietitians, nurses, and pharmacists will find this book to be a helpful, handy resource. Drugs and Dysphagia is carefully organized, allowing quick access to precise information. The text comprises of three parts:

• Part 1 — overviews the nervous system and the swallow process. An overview of the effects of medications on swallowing is provided in Chapter 3.
• Part 2 — addresses medications that affect the central nervous system. Medications associated with oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal dysphagia; causes of dysphagia; and drug-induced dysphagia are discussed.
• Part 3 — deals with important medications that can cause dysfunction of the gastrointestinal system and those that are used to treat gastrointestinal dysfunction.

Tables are included throughout for this quick and easy-to-use 333-page reference. These tables are organized into medication groups based on their use. Specific medications from each group are listed by both generic and brand name. The tables include the recommended doses of these medications; and the commonly encountered side effects associated with them, which may contribute to dysphagia.

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Reviewer Comments:

"Knowing which medication affects which physiologic functions (and subsequently, how medications may affect test results), is something we don’t cover very well in our academic programs, but it is part of the mystery that the medical Speech Language Pathologist tries to unravel in each case.  I suggest a reference, nicely written by a Speech Language Pathologist and Pharmacologist, that deals with medications and dysphagia.  I use this text in our Medical Speech Language Pathology course and hospital practicum with my graduate students.  It will also be recommended for the Externships in our Clinical Doctorate in Medical SLP program.  It is concise enough to have in your pocket and complete enough to be very useful." — Jim Coyle, University of Pittsburgh CCC-SLP

Target Audience

Excellent reference book for any clinician who manages patients with dysphagia.

Author

Peter Johnson, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an author, lecturer and clinician with experience in acute care hospitals, home care, outpatient clinics and long-term care. He lectures nationally on cognition and dysphagia. Dr. Johnson is the Speech Mentor with Select Medical, for which he develops new clinical programs, conducts CE seminars, provides clinician mentoring nationally and maintains the clinic hotline. He is also active with the Florida Association of Speech-Language Pathology, the Florida Department of Health/Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, and with ASHA's Special Interest Divisions.  Dr. Johnson is also adjunct faculty and dissertation chair at Nova Southeastern University.  Among other publications he is co-author of the text Drugs and Dysphagia: How Medications Affect Eating and Swallowing.

Lynette Carl, PharmD, BCPS, has practiced as a Consultant and Clinical Pharmacist in pharmacies providing patient care in the settings of hospital, psychiatric, hospice care, home infusion care, and skilled nursing facilities. Her clinical practice experience includes infectious disease, critical care, nutrition support, geriatrics, internal medicine, anti-coagulation, cardiology and pain management. She is co-author of the text Drugs and Dysphagia: How Medications Affect Eating and Swallowing.