Why Mobile FEES?

•    No need to coordinate time with radiology department schedule

•  No radiation exposure with FEES

•             No unpleasant barium-tainted food & no barium-associated constipation for patients

•             No waiting to be cleared from isolation precautions

•             FEES can be used with patients on mechanical ventilation

•             Normal food is given to patients

•             FEES can be performed while a patient is sitting upright or in bed

•             FEES can be performed easily on morbidly obese patients as opposed to MBSS

•             FEES can be given to medically complex patients who otherwise would not tolerate a trip to radiology

•             Physician does not have to be present during a FEES study

•             FEES is shown in High Definition digital color as both a still and video

• FEES is approximately 1/4 of the cost of an MBSS