Screening Disfagia Dengan Instrument Standardized Swallowing Assessment Pada Pasien Dengan Gangguan Neurologi Di Rsup Dr. Wahidin Sudirohusodo

Abstract

Screening of Dysphagia is one of the applications of evidence based nursing (EBN) to reduce complications. The Study results found that Screening of Dysphagia can be effectively carried out by nurses and cause a decrease in the level of pneumonia (Palli et al., 2017). Screening of Dysphagia could reduces the level of broncho aspiration in acute stroke patients (Cocho et al., 2015). Many instruments that can be used in Screening of Dysphagia. The Standardized Swallowing Assessment (SSA) instrument is the best instruments that have been used with higher sensitivity and specificity and evaluation of the results of methodological quality evaluations with a 12 steps criterion adapted from (Jaeschke et al). The purpose of this EBN is to assess the effective, efficient and safe use of SSA instruments and the prevalence of dysphagia in dysphagia screening in the lontara room for neurology patients RSUP Dr. Wahidin SudirohusodoMakassar. Implementing this EBN, it was found that Dysphagia Screening using SSA instruments was effective, efficient and safe to use. 9 of 19 patients were indicated as dysphagia.