This pocket-sized reference is for clinicians who manage patients
with dysphagia. Speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists,
physicians, clinical dieticians, 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 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 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.

Reviewer Comments:

"Knowing
which medication affects which physiologic functions (and subsequently,
how medications may affect test results), is something we dont 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

To see more of this product's contents:

• About the Authors
• Introduction
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables

333 pages 2006 softcover