CARE INDICATORS RELATED TO OROPHARYNGEAL SWALLOWING IN AN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT OF A PUBLIC HOSPITAL OF HIGH COMPLEXITY IN THE FEDERAL DISTRICT
Swallowing, Speech Pathology, Quality Indicatorsin Health Care.
Swallowing disorders, also called dysphagia, are not considered a disease, but a symptom of some underlying disease. They are associated with increased morbidity and mortality, and can lead to a variety of clinical complications, including dehydration, malnutrition, and aspiration pneumonia. Therefore, early evaluation of dysphagia by a speech-language pathologist is critical to prevent future clinical complications and should have a high priority in health care practices. The speech-language pathologist is the professional able to assess swallowing early and establish the safest feeding route. The urgency and emergency unit is the sector that provides the first care to the patient, it is interesting that each emergency room (ER) has the performance of this professional, since there is great demand of potentially dysphagic patients, but the literature is quite scarce on the performance of this professional in urgency and emergency services. Objective: To analyze the care indicators of patients with swallowing disorders admitted to an emergency service (ER) in a public hospital of high complexity in the Federal District, evaluated by the speech therapy team. Methods: This is a retrospective analytical crosssectional study. Data will be collected from the patients' medical records using an electronic medical record system and tabulated in Microsoft Excel. Attendances between September 2019 and September 2020 will be considered for this analysis. For this study, the variables analyzed will be information on process and outcome quality indicators.