surface electromyography as a screening method for evaluation of dysphagia and odynophagia表面肌电图作为一种筛选方法评估吞咽困难和吞咽痛.pdf

Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Review Open Access Surface electromyography as a screening method for evaluation of dysphagia and odynophagia Michael Vaiman* and Ephraim Eviatar Address: Department of Otolaryngology, Assaf Harofe Medical Center, Affiliated to Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Email: Michael Vaiman* - vaimed@; Ephraim Eviatar - eviatare@.il * Corresponding author Published: 20 February 2009 Received: 26 November 2008 Accepted: 20 February 2009 Head Face Medicine 2009, 5:9 doi:10.1186/1746-160X-5-9 This article is available from: /content/5/1/9 © 2009 Vaiman and Eviatar; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Objective: Patients suspected of having swallowing disorders, could highly benefit from simple diagnostic screening before being referred to specialist evaluations. The article analyzes various instrumental methods of dysphagia assessment, introduces surface electromyography (sEMG) to carry out rapid assessment of such patients, and debates proposed suggestions for sEMG screening protocol in order to identify abnormal deglutition. Data sources: Subject related books and articles from 1813 to 2007 were obtained through library search, MEDLINE (1949–2007) and EMBASE (1975–