The swallow tests (remember those?) showed that there were insufficient cranial sensory and/or motor pathways intact to elicit the pattern that propells the bolus near the back of the mouth to a position where the involuntary pharyngeal reflex component would take over. The bottom line? She couldn't swallow any more than minimal saliva production.
Give it up, you condescending twit.
In other words, hitting your knee with a mallet will have no effect, unless I happen to hit it at the moment that your knee-jerk reflex just happens to be causing you to kick? Um, you appear to have no clue what a reflex is or how it works.
A reflex is triggered by some stimulus; namely, the presence of something in the back of the mouth. Saliva triggers the reflex. But neither Terri nor her pharynx know the difference between saliva and any other liquid; whatever is placed in the back of the mouth will trigger the reflex.
Give it up, you condescending twit.
From the guy who doesn't know what a reflex is, that's almost enjoyably humorous. But I suggest that you try to understand things using small words; the big words are way too much for you. For example, you clearly looked up the swallowing reflex on the Internet after a recent post, but only ended up more confused. Hint: when feeding a comatose patient, no bolus is involved at all, let alone needs to be "propelled" to the back of the mouth.