Infant Feeding
Person who responds to an infant's feeding cues.
Who is the feeder?
FEES (Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallow) and Dysphagia Study (AKA Videofluoroscopic Swallow Study)
What are the two kinds of instrumental examinations of swallow performed at RCHSD?
A new method of measuring the thickness of liquids using flow rate.
What is the International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initiative
A patient with a tracheostomy tube is most likely to aspirate on this consistency.
What are thin liquids?
Members of the tube weaning team.
Who are OT, ST, Dietitian, GI, PCP, Psychologist?
Root, latch, alert, oral motor reflexes present, engagement and oral motor skills present.
What six signs of feeding readiness ?
Look under imaging tab to find date of study & then go to notes OR look under Episode
How do you find a Dysphagia Study report in EPIC
The term that describes liquids when more than 1 mL but less than 4 mL remains after flow rate test
What is Slightly Thick?
The primary reason that swallowing function is altered when a tracheostomy tube is placed is due to the change in this.
What is subglottic pressure?
As long as the total volume of formula consumed per day is the same and the remainder is consumed orally.
When can a feeding therapist change the amount of formula given to a patient via feeding tube?
Esophageal anomaly, GI anomalies, sensory system impairments, delayed introduction of oral feeds and force feeding experiences.
What are some of the causes that limit or delay achievement of oral feeding?
Liquid or paste barium alone or mixed with solid foods.
What do patients consume during a swallow study?
A commonly used thickener, this substance is unreliable.
What is Rice Cereal?
Tracheal wall injury, esophageal impingement, reflux, and laryngeal tethering can all be a result of this.
What is an over inflated cuff?
The number of calories per ounce in standard infant formula.
What is 20?
Breastfeeding, chin/lower lip support, palatal stimulation, positioning, nipple placement and viscosity.
What are some strategies to support successful feeding?
It is difficult to complete this exam with a patient who is very large, wearing a halo, using a custom wheelchair or is orally averse.
What is a Dysphagia Study in Radiology?
When stirred, this combination got thicker faster than when frothed.
Rice cereal and heated formula.
One way to restore the sublglottic pressure in a patient with a trachesotomy tube is to assess them for the following.
What is a speaking valve?
The number of calories per ounce in standard feeding tube formula for children over 12 months.
What is 30?
Jaw prodding, cheek squeezing, twist and turn nipple, and volume based feeding.
What are things a feeder should NOT do when feeding an infant?
This can be used with patients older than 12 months of age if they do not have a history of NEC.
Liquids with this thickener get thickest after 30 minutes but then start to get thinner.
What is Rice Cereal?
PEEP is this abbreviated.
Positive end expiratory pressure
The desired length of a tube meal for a child who is ready to start weaning form the tube.