Clinical Reference

The Importance of Lab Values for Clinical Swallow Assessments

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Print Resource — US Letter — 4 pages

Population:

Pediatric

Discipline:

SLP

Diagnosis:

Feeding and SwallowingLanguage Development

References:

  • Wallace, T. (n.d.). Lab Values That The Medical SLP Should Be Aware Of. 12-16.
  • Andropoulos, D. B. (2012). Pediatric normal laboratory values. Gregory’s Pediatric Anesthesia. Houston: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1300-14.
Lab values are essential to our clinical swallow evaluation process as speech-language pathologists. This resource discusses the importance of knowing our patients’ lab values and provides a chart with possible effects of abnormal pediatric lab values on matters that pertain to feeding and swallowing.
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