• Adel Maamar, Valentine Parent, Emmanuelle Prudhomme, Emmanuel Guérot, Pauline Berneau, Aurélien Frérou, Le TulzoYvesYService de Maladies Infectieuses et Réanimation Médicale, Hôpital Pontchaillou, Université de Rennes 1, 2, rue Henri Le Guilloux, 35033 Rennes cedex 9, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université de Rennes 1, Unité INSERM CIC 1414, IFR 140, Renne, Franck Jégoux, Arnaud Gacouin, and Jean-Marc Tadié.
• Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Réanimation Médicale, Hôpital Pontchaillou, Université de Rennes 1, 2, rue Henri Le Guilloux, 35033 Rennes cedex 9, France. Electronic address: adel.maamar@chu-rennes.fr.
• J Crit Care. 2022 Dec 1; 72: 154119154119.

BackgroundA bedside screening tool of swallowing dysfunction (SD) (BSSD) after extubation would be useful to identify patients who are at risk of SD. We aimed to evaluate the accuracy of our BSSD in comparison with fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) in critically ill patients after extubation.MethodsWe conducted a 1-year prospective monocentric study to evaluate the accuracy of our BSSD to diagnose SD following endotracheal intubation in comparison with FEES (gold standard). Patients intubated for longer than 48 h were included. Both tests were assessed within 24 h after extubation. Primary endpoint was the accuracy of the BSSD. Secondary endpoint was to assess risk factors of SD.ResultsSeventy-nine patients were included in the study. Thirty-three patients (42%) presented with a SD. The BSSD showed a sensitivity of 88% (95% CI 0.72-0.97) and a specificity of 91% (95% CI 0.79-0.98), a positive predictive value of 88% (95% CI 0.72-0.97) and a negative predictive value of 91% (95% CI 0.79-0.97). The AUC reached 0.83 (95% CI 0.74-0.92).ConclusionOur study describes an accurate clinical screening tool to detect SD after extubation in critically ill patients. Screening-positive cases should be confirmed by instrumental tests, ideally using FEES.Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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