High intensity vagus nerve stimulation can cause side effects such as hoarseness, difficulty swallowing, and breathing issues. — Whalespan
High intensity vagus nerve stimulation can cause side effects such as hoarseness, difficulty swallowing, and breathing issues.
⚠ High risk
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“when you turn on the vagus nerve stimulator, the patient's voice becomes strangulated and hoarse, they can have trouble swallowing, they can have trouble speaking for sure, even some trouble breathing, because everything in the neck, every electrically responsive cell and projection in the neck is being affected by this electrode.”
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