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AAC
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- Tips on making AAC evals more efficient?
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- Improving AAC strategy carryover with caregivers?
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- How do you get buy-in from your facility to cover AAC devices?
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- Do you get referrals specifically for AAC?
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Acute care
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- HHFNC: Is LPM or FiO2 more important?
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- Is person-centered care possible in acute care?
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- Would age, code status, or diagnosis change your decision on whether you'd complete an MBS?
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- Timing swallow evals in acute MS or MG crisis/exacerbation in acute care?
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- What does a cognitive linguistic stroke evaluation look like for you in an acute care setting?
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- Treating communication in advanced dementia in the acute setting?
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- Do we have a role in managing delirium?
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- When would you make the decision to insert a PEG after the patient has been on a NGT?
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- Why do acute stroke patients have fluctuating levels of alertness?
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- Do you recommend a screener for acute care that easily diagnoses aphasia type?
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- Standards for productivity vs billing in acute care?
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- Can patients have speaking valves in the acute post-op phase of esophagectomy?
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- HHFNC: Parameters for holding a swallow eval?
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- How to get involved in GOC discussions in acute?
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- Acute care standard for cognitive-linguistic evals?
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- What are the statistics re: aspiration or silent aspiration post intubation?
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- Where does the blanket recommendation “urgent medications crushed in puree if not contraindicated” come from?
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- Treating voice after extubation in acute care
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- Do you get referrals specifically for AAC?
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- Pushback for NPO vs diet after extubation
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Aphasia
5 Sections
- Is person-centered care possible in acute care?
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- Suggestions for a non-communicative patient after a large L hemisphere stroke
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- Can the Communication Participation Item Bank be completed by proxy?
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- Can you expand on these aphasia techniques?: ORLA, ACRT, and MOR
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- Do you recommend a screener for acute care that easily diagnoses aphasia type?
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Cognitive communication
12 Sections
- How do major diagnoses affect cognition & swallowing?
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- Most useful or efficient cog-comm assessments in a fast paced acute inpatient setting?
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- How do we treat delirium?
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- Would cognitive eval and treatment be indicated for a patient with PRES?
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- What's the SLP diagnosis code for dementia and cognitive-communication impairment?
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- Advocating for our role in cognition with PM&R doctors
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- What does a cognitive linguistic stroke evaluation look like for you in an acute care setting?
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- Treating communication in advanced dementia in the acute setting?
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- Do we have a role in managing delirium?
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- Dementia: evidence-based interventions when other things aren't working?
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- Acute care standard for cognitive evals?
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- Can prolonged urinary incontinence impact memory and mentation (cog changes related to retention)?
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Dysphagia, swallowing, cough
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- Do you use the blue dye test with trach patients?
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- How do major diagnoses affect cognition & swallowing?
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- Can I rely on cough to detect or rule out aspiration?
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- Pulse oximetry to detect aspiration?
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- Tactile-thermal stimulation (TTS) for apraxic dysphagia?
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- How to best evaluate pill swallowing?
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- CSE or MBS for this patient with COPD + esophageal dysphagia?
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- Can MBS prevent Medicare coverage of tube feeds?
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- HHFNC: Parameters for holding a swallow eval?
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- Why did this patient end up NPO with a PEG?
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- Dysphagia in parapharyngeal mass?
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- Copious oral secretions and no dysphagia likely - what to consider?
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- Sudden-onset dysphagia after swallowing a pill - treatment thoughts?
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- If a pt complains of globus sensation, what other things should I be thinking of before jumping to recommend a MBSS or not?
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- Is a VFSS still warranted if an 80-year-old patient did well on a bedside swallow evaluation?
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- Brainstem stroke in acute: swallowing exercises? MBS?
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- Oral motor exercises for facial weakness / dysphagia?
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- Improving cough strength for a person on hospice?
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- What exactly is meant by "frank" aspiration?
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- HHFNC: Is LPM or FiO2 more important?
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- Is it appropriate or ethical for SLPs to recommend NPO status or “recommend” alternative means of nutrition?
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- Do you have any references or recommendations regarding decision making for PEG tube placement vs NG tube following a stroke with moderate to severe dysphagia?
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- CTAR: How much are they supposed to tuck their chin down?
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- Would you have continued this MBS on a patient with MND?
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- How do we advocate for MBS / FEES in the SNF?
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- Would age, code status, or diagnosis change your decision on completing an MBS?
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- Can a patient have a normal esophageal manometry study but still have a motility disorder
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- Any guidance on timing swallow evals in MG and MS crises?
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- Has anyone frozen thin Varibar for VFSS or MBS?
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- When would you recommend a PEG tube?
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- Should I use chest x-ray findings to determine candidacy for an instrumental swallow study?
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- When do you do, or defer, a 3 oz water swallow test / Yale Swallow protocol?
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- Do you have a good resource to point me to for brushing up on different compensatory strategies and when to use them on MBS?
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- What might cause a patient to have a very audible swallow post total thyroidectomy?
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- Why would manometry be normal and not pick up on dysmotility?
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- Recent evidence regarding free water protocol and who it's appropriate for (or not)?
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- Have you ever seen little to no tongue movement with all consistencies on an MBS?
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- Thoughts on the Frazier Free Water Protocol for this patient with severe brain injury?
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- What are you using for an MBS chair for bariatric patients?
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- Are exercises indicated in this patient with likely LMN involvement and advanced cancer?
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- Would swallowing exercises be indicated in a patient with dysphasia following a cerebellopontine angle tumor resection?
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- Do you use the effortful pitch glide exercise and dysphagia therapy when appropriate based on an instrumental?
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- What plan of care would you establish for this patient based on MBS findings and current status?
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- Logistics of possibly removing a thickened liquid restriction for this patient?
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- What would you bill for evaluation and also for treatment of rumination syndrome?
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- Alternatives if a patient is having difficulty swallowing meds?
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- Do you measure and record the amount of barium ingested by the patient during MBS?
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- When would you make the decision to insert a PEG after the patient has been on a NGT?
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- Functional dysphagia treatment resources?
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- Is it typical during a VFSS to not always see a CP bar as prominently with some bolus trials vs others?
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- CTAR contraindications?
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- MDTP for brainstem stroke?
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- Do we have a role in helping patients who have chronic hiccups? How about problematic belching?
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- Patient choked on Levadopa - next step?
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- Advice for when patient swallowing outcomes aren't what you hoped for?
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- How to get involved in GOC discussions in acute?
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- Is an infarct in the pons a concern for silent aspiration?
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- Is a chin tuck an appropriate strategy during MBSS for residue in the valleculae?
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- Is there a phrase you can add to an MBSS report indicating that "impairments” are functional/WFL?
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- Does Medicare require a radiologist to be present or supervise the completion of VFSS?
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- Why would a patient only have difficulty swallowing pills?
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- Could this sialorrhea sensation be from nerve damage?
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- Hospice referral for choking on pills?
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- What does "Patulous esophagus filled with debris" mean?
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- What are the statistics re: aspiration or silent aspiration post intubation?
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- What is descending necrotizing mediastinitis and retropharyngeal fluid collection abscess?
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- Where does the blanket recommendation “urgent medications crushed in puree if not contraindicated” come from?
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- Dysphagia rehab for a patient with MS and a trach?
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- CLIPPERS & episodic dysphagia symptoms
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- What should SLPs know about hiatal hernias?
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- Dysphagia after BOT surgery - why is it worse now?
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- Explaining why we're evaluating swallowing based on chest imaging?
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- When is a bedside swallow evaluation enough? I can't do instrumentals on everyone.
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- Does the patient have the final say in things like thickened liquids?
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- Pushback for NPO vs diet after extubation
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- Eating without a speaking valve? Cuff deflated?
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Essentials & medical
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- How do major diagnoses affect cognition & swallowing?
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- How to document the body systems approach in our notes?
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- Resources for predicting deficits based on neuro lesion location?
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- Distinguishing UMN vs LMN lesions
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- Transitioning from Ed to Med - can you help me learn how to write plans of care and determine treatment frequency in these settings?
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- How can I improve my knowledge of medical abbreviations?
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- Is incentive spirometry contraindicated in COPD?
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- Can CN IX have aberrant regeneration after microvascular decompression?
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- What would be the etiology of sialorrhea in CVA patients?
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- How can I tell how advanced a patient’s dementia is?
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- Why do acute stroke patients have fluctuating levels of alertness?
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- ClariFix Cryotherapy: Opinions / experience?
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- What does age indeterminate tiny infarct mean?
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- Does "subacute," as in subacute subdural hematoma mean that the SDH occurred X amount of time ago?
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- Chest imaging: what should we as SLPs know about atelectasis, opacities, etc. seen on imaging?
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- Can you briefly explain sepsis from PNA/UTI?
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- Separating out cranial nerve findings vs facial dyskinesia
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- What should SLPs know about hiatal hernias?
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- Does "convexity" in "trace left temporal convexity subdural hematoma" refer to the shape of the SDH?
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- What happens to SDH / SAH without intervention?
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- When documenting A&Ox4…what questions are you asking?
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- BONUS: Tips for understanding unfamiliar medical terminology
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- How to learn about body systems & SLP?
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- BONUS: Quick reference for select lab values
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Motor speech
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- My coworker suggested non-speech exercises for dysarthria -- do those work?
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- Brainstem strokes: dysarthria vs dysphonia, and ENT referrals?
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- Ataxic dysarthria vs Apraxia of speech
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- How to distinguish and diagnose dysarthria types
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- Reducing muscle tension dysphonia in a person with apraxia
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- What can we do for someone with impaired respiratory support for speech
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- Aphonia in advanced Parkinson Disease: Is it worth working on voicing?
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- If a patient presents with nonverbal oral apraxia, does that mean verbal apraxia is guaranteed?
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- When diagnosing AOS, can you please provide an example of what groping actually looks like?
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- What type of dysarthria would you expect given a diagnosis of a L MCA stroke?
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- Can you go over the subsystems of the dysarthria?
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Professional topics
23 Sections
- Common job interview questions for MedSLPs?
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- What do you wish you knew before stepping foot in a medical facility as an SLP?
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- How do you forgive yourself when you make a mistake?
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- How would you manage a dilemma when half of the speech pathology department disagrees?
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- In NYS is there any issue with working and billing as a CFY without a state license?
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- Which medical code to use for Alzheimer's and dementia?
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- F80.2 is said to be a developmental code, what does that mean?
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- What are tips and recommendations to navigate insurance and billing in medical settings?
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- What are your thoughts on burnout among Med SLPs?
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- Are med SLPs required to work on Saturdays ?
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- What ICD-10 code do you use for a normal swallow evaluation?
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- Toxic work environment with senior clinicians and newer clinicians. What to do about it?
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- How do I know when to discharge an adult outpatient?
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- Is it within our scope to carry out oral care on a patient?
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- How do you handle different points of view between full time and contingent staff members in acute care?
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- Standards for productivity vs billing in acute care?
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- Are you aware of any copyright issues with this measure in terms of reporting the score in a patient's therapy note?
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- Words of wisdom for writing legally defensible documentation?
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- Advice for when patient outcomes aren't what you hoped for?
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- Tips for returning to work after leave of absence?
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- Explaining why we're evaluating swallowing based on chest imaging
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- Getting pressured to pick up patients for cognitive treatment. Thoughts?
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- Does the patient have the final say in things like thickened liquids?
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RMT / RMST
1 Section
- RMT content: now exclusively at BREATHEHAB
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Trach / vent
10 Sections
- Do you use the blue dye test with trach patients?
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- New to trachs -- what to do with this patient?
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- Are there certain ventilator modes which should immediately exclude inline PMV candidacy if all other parameters are within optimal settings?
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- Can patients have speaking valves in the acute post-op phase of esophagectomy?
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- How do you educate nurses about speaking valves?
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- When performing a standard, “best case scenario” in-line PMV assessment, is there urgency to go through all steps quickly?
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- Why would a patient be able to wear the PMV but not capping trials?
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- Who decides when to change / downsize a trach?
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- Respiratory rate and PMV: what's too high?
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- Eating without a speaking valve? Cuff deflated?
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Voice
14 Sections
- Can you give an overview on laryngeal reposturing?
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- Research supporting vocal fold augmentation in patients with Parkinson Disease?
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- Avoiding FEES vs videostroboscopy confusion on a referral
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- New to voice therapy and suspect presbyphonia - thoughts on this treatment plan?
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- Resources for working with patients who have ABductor spasmodic dysphonia?
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- Copyright issues reporting the VHI-10 in a patient's note?
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- VHI-10 as a clinical outcome measure?
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- How might we most appropriately assess ILO (VCD) in the acute inpatient setting?
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- Aphonia in advanced Parkinson Disease: Is it worth working on voicing?
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- How long is too long to wait to ask for a patient to be rescoped?
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- Brainstem strokes: dysarthria vs dysphonia, and ENT referrals?
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- Are unilateral vocal nodules a thing?
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- Treating Bamboo vocal nodules related to rheumatoid arthritis?
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- Treating voice after extubation in acute care
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