Table 3 - Materials and equipment used for VFSS at VA Boston Healthcare System
From the following article
How to perform video-fluoroscopic swallowing studies
Gary D. Gramigna
GI Motility online (2006)
doi:10.1038/gimo95
| 1. Hausted video imaging chair (Hausted, Inc. Medina OH) |
| 2. Standardized (EZPaque Liquid 60% w/v, 41% w/w) and other products from E-Z-EM, Inc., Westbury, NY, designed especially for VFSS studies. |
| 3. Varibar, from E-Z-EM, Inc., Westbury, NY, thin liquid 40% w/v; nectar 40% w/v, 30% w/w; honey 40% w/v, 29% w/w; pudding 40% w/v, 30% w/w. Varibar does not coat and stick to the mucosa, making interpretation of the pharyngeal residue more apparent. |
| 4. For the solid texture, typically use a portion of a graham cracker cookie coated with the pudding for a standard protocol. The graham cracker can be managed often with edentulous patients. |
| 5. Previously, standard S-VHS videotape format recorded with a Panasonic AG-7350 recorder with time-date generator. Now being used, a digital Clark-Tut image capture (Tutview 11.0, Clark Research and Development, Inc., Folsom, LA) and manipulations system; Philips EasyDiagnost digital fluoroscope (Philips Electronics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands). |
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