Clinical dysphagia risk predictors after prolonged orotracheal intubation

To elucidate independent risk factors for dysphagia after prolonged orotracheal intubation.The participants were 148 consecutive patients who underwent clinical bedside swallowing assessments from September 2009 to September 2011. All patients had received prolonged orotracheal intubations and were admitted to one of several intensive care units of a large Brazilian school hospital. The correlations between the conducted water swallow test...