Vocal Chord Paralysis Study

I actually thought that paralysis and dysphagia were more common than this study indicates. That's probably the definition of being caught up in your own experience.

This also makes me feel a bit better about our need to thicken Job's milk: "Dysphagia was found in 73.5% of Norwood and 69.2% of arch subjects who had documented VC paralysis."

And it makes me fall in love with SCH all the more because we have had great oto follow up as well as VFSS and PT care.

Vinh Pham, BS, Diana Connelly, RRT-NPS, CCRC, Julie L. Wei, MD, Kevin J Sykes, MPH, CCRC, and Jim O’Brien, MD2, "Vocal Cord Paralysis and Dysphagia after Aortic Arch Reconstruction and Norwood Procedure" ( 2014 Feb 10)