Improved apparatus for determining dysphagia

摘要

The procedure comprises the following steps:
- fitting, in proximity of the patient's larynx, a specific microphone (7) acoustically isolated from ambient noise and connected to a recording system suitable to display a recording of the sound intensity detected by the microphone (7);
- making the patient swallow boluses of various kinds, for example liquid boluses, and simultaneously recording and viewing said sound recording;
- comparing the recording obtained with standard recordings to identify the presence of abnormalities.