standardization of surface electromyography utilized to evaluate patients with dysphagia标准化的表面肌电图用来评估患者吞咽困难.pdfVIP

Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Methodology Open Access Standardization of surface electromyography utilized to evaluate patients with dysphagia Michael Vaiman*1,2 Address: 1Department of Otolaryngology, Assaf Harofe Medical Center, Affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel and 233 Shapiro Street, Bat Yam, 59561, Israel Email: Michael Vaiman* - vaimed@ * Corresponding author Published: 6 June 2007 Received: 13 March 2007 Accepted: 6 June 2007 Head Face Medicine 2007, 3:26 doi:10.1186/1746-160X-3-26 This article is available from: /content/3/1/26 © 2007 Vaiman; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Backgorund: Patients suspected of having swallowing disorders, could highly benefit from simple diagnostic screening before being referred to specialist evaluations. We introduce surface electromyography (sEMG) to carry out rapid assessment of such patients and propose suggestions for standardizing sEMGs in order to identify abnormal deglutition. Methods: Specifics steps for establishing standards for applying the technique for screening purposes (e.g., evaluation of specific muscles), the requirements for diagnostic sEMG equipment,