This app is a visual guide to learning about aspiration disorders. This app is unlikely to have any benefit to consumers if used outside of a consultation with a speech language therapist.
| Aspiration Disorders | By Blue Tree Publishing |
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The Aspiration Disorders app has features to help health professionals teach patients about aspiration swallowing disorders. The app has drawings and pictures of what happens during normal swallowing and during aspiration disorders. Aspiration happens when food or liquids from the stomach are breathed into the airways. It causes coughing and chocking and if the aspirated contents reaches the lungs, it can cause a serious condition called aspiration pneumonia. Aspiration disorders are more likely in people who have swallowing difficulties.
The language and illustrations in this app are quite technical. Consequently it is unlikely to have any benefit to consumers if used outside of a consultation with a speech language therapist. For the complete app description, go to the App Store or for a more detailed review, see Reviews.
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✔ Pictures and videos of four different swallows: normal (no food/drink entered the airway), aspiration (entered the airway), silent (entered the airway wi0074hout a cough), and penetration/cough (stops just short of entering the airway). |
✘ Extremely poor readability. The app description says it is targeted to both students and patients. However, it uses very high-level medical language which would require prior medical training to understand. It has a Flesch readability score of 22 (scale is 0 to 100, with 0 being very confusing/difficult, and 100 being very easy) |
Review details
Date of review: August 2019
Platform reviewed: Apple
Version: 1.3
Download size: 54.6 MB
Updated on: 28/09/2017
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