Does intrathecal baclofen therapy improve functional intelligibility of speech in cerebral palsy?
Intrathecal baclofen improved functional intelligibility of speech in a carefully selected subject. The Assessment of Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speech was found to be a useful quantitative tool to assess the effect of intrathecal baclofen on spastic dysarthria.
In spite of many pressures on training in the clinical setting, the number of cases and senior supervision in specialist modules for trainee anaesthetists in our teaching hospital has been maintained. Continuous monitoring of in-theatre supervision is one way of confirming that training is not compromised as changes occur in hospital workload.