An international expert panel has developed the first consensus criteria for referral criteria for specialist palliative care ...

Patients with advanced dementia with feeding problems such ... due to the perceived benefits of reducing the risk of aspiration pneumonia and improving survival. However, this has not been shown ...

Hospitalized patients with dementia and dysphagia are often ... reduced mortality or respiratory complications, such as pneumonia, aspiration, or choking, compared with thin-liquid diets in ...

It’s common among stroke patients and adults with dementia, Parkinson’s disease ... complications such as lung scarring or aspiration pneumonia. Your doctor will ask if you’ve experienced ...

If a person with advanced dementia has an aspiration pneumonia, antibiotics may help ... recognises they are at end of life. My patients who are very elderly with capacity will often choose ...

By broadening the scope of care to consider the patient and ... health complications of dementia—such as falls, psychological and behavioral symptoms, aspiration pneumonia, and recurrent urinary ...

Patients using GLP-1 drugs had no difference in the odds of postoperative aspiration pneumonia versus non-users. There was also no significant difference in the odds of acute respiratory failure.

Pulmonary aspiration can lead to a sometimes fatal condition called aspiration pneumonia ... reports of pulmonary aspiration in patients receiving GLP-1 receptor agonists undergoing elective ...

food can remain in the stomach even if a patient fasted the night before surgery, which can lead to rare respiratory complications called aspiration and aspiration pneumonia, according to the EMA.