Description
Presented by: Marta Kazandjian, MA CCC-SLP, BCS-S, FASHA, NBC-HWC
AUDIENCE: Graduate students, Clinical Fellows, experienced clinicians, administrators and clinicians who would like to transition from school-based SLP to medical-based SLP.
This webinar is FREE for all thanks to the Sponsorship support from TIMS Medical
Description of Webinar
Instrumental assessments are necessary to provide evidenced based swallowing care across all settings. Many clinicians are forced to make assessment and treatment decisions based on bedside clinical assessments alone, without the use of these tools, impacting the ability to identify functional swallowing outcomes. The only way to objectively confirm airway safety, penetration/aspiration, is via instrumental assessment. Despite this, speech pathologists make inferences based on clinical symptoms and history when instrumental assessments are unavailable. Often, leadership across all settings are unaware of the consequences of making diagnostic and treatment decisions without this valuable information of swallow safety and efficiency obtained via instrumental assessment. Frustration on the part of the clinician is not uncommon. This course will provide the dysphagia clinician with a strategy to build a flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) program. It will identify necessary components of a successful FEES program and assist the clinician in supporting the argument for the necessary inclusion of this instrumental procedure in any dysphagia program.
Learning Objectives:
1) Participants will translate the benefits of a FEES program over modified barium swallow studies to justify a FEES Program in their setting.
2) Participants will determine the necessary components of a successful FEES Program.
3) Participants will develop a plan in the event their request for FEES access is not approved.
This webinar is approximately 60 minutes in length. This is a recording of a live webinar.
This webinar is offered for Professional Development Hours (PDHs), previously Certification Maintenance Hours (CMHs). Dysphagia Cafe is not an ASHA CEU provider and does not submit for ASHA CEUs. For more information on PDH: https://www.asha.org/certification/factdef/.
Certificate of completion available upon request
Presenter:
Marta Kazandjian M.A.CCC-SLP BRS-S, NBC-HWC, FASHA is Clinical Assistant Professor and Dept Head at
Stony Brook Southampton Hospital and Stony Brook University in New York. She is an ASHA Fellow and
is board certified in both swallowing and integrative whole health/wellness coaching. She is an invited
national and international speaker and has extensive experience working with complex medically fragile
populations in acute, sub-acute and long-term care settings. Marta specializes in swallowing and
communication impairment in these patient populations and has a particular interest in palliative and
end of life care. Marta has led departments across all these settings, including developing evidenced
based programs to meet the needs of the patients she serves in these communities. Her work in
swallowing, verbal and non-verbal communication, tracheostomy and ventilator management is best
represented by her peer reviewed articles, book chapters and text books including her most recent 3rd
edition text Communication and Swallowing Management of Tracheostomized and Ventilator
Dependent Individuals available at www.eatspeakbreathepublishing.com.
