Table 2.
Recommended management of clinical swallowing assessment and examination for patients with dysphagia.
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Confirmed and Suspected |
Negative and 2-week change to negative after confirmation |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| All regions |
All regions |
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| Permissivity | Recommended PPE | Permissivity | Recommended PPE | |
| RSST | Deprecated | full PPE | As usual | sPPE |
| Modified water swallow test | Deprecated | full PPE | As usual | E-PPE |
| FEES | Deprecated | full PPE | As usual | E-PPE |
| VF | Deprecated | full PPE | As usual | E-PPE |
|
Unconfirmed |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non‐epidemic regions |
Endemic regions |
Epidemic regions |
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| Permissivity | Recommende PPE | Permissivity | Recommended PPE | Permissivity | Recommended PPE | |
| RSST | Acceptance | sPPE | Acceptance | E-PPE | Acceptance | E-PPE |
| Modified water swallow test | Acceptance | E-PPE | Limited acceptance | E-PPE | Limited acceptance | E-PPE |
| FEES | Acceptance | E-PPE | Deprecated | E-PPE | Deprecated | E-PPE |
| VF | Acceptance | E-PPE | Limited acceptance | E-PPE | Limited acceptance | E-PPE |
PPE: personal protective equipment, sPPE: standard PPE, E-PPE: Eye-PPE, EB-PPE: Eye/Body-PPE, RSST: repetitive saliva swallowing test, VF: videofluoroscopic examination of swallowing.