Scenario Responses

 N (%)

Scenario

Gastric

Postpyloric

Could not Determine

A 36 week neonate born with hypotonia and poor coordination who has aspiration on a swallow evaluation

15 (56%)

10 (37%)

2 (7%)

A term infant with congenital heart disease (HLHS) who is admitted to the cardiac ICU following first stage repair

16 (59.3%)

7 (25.9%)

4 (14.8%)

An ex-24 week neonate now 50 weeks CGA transferred from an outside facility for ventilator dependence, pneumonia, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia

23 (85.2%)

4 (14.8%)

0 (0.0%)

A 2-month-old infant admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit with RSV and right lower lobe pneumonia

24 (88.9%)

3 (11.1%)

0 (0.0%)

A 12-year-old with cerebral palsy admitted with aspiration pneumonia

13 (48.1%)

12 (44.4%)

2 (7.4%)

A 4-year-old admitted with 40% TBSA burns who is intubated.

17 (63.0%)

9 (33.3%)

1 (3.7%)

A 3-month-old status post heart transplant.

23 (85.2%)

2 (7.4%)

2 (7.4%)

Premature infant with low birth weight 

26 (96.3%)

0 (0.0%)

1 (3.7%)

A 15-year-old patient with severe cystic fibrosis being evaluated for lung transplant admitted with respiratory failure to the ICU (not intubated).

20 (74.1%)

4 (14.8%)

3 (11.1%)

An ex-24 week infant on home oxygen admitted to the ICU for replacement of a VP shunt

24 (88.9%)

1 (3.7%)

2 (7.4%)