Abstract

MORENO RODRIGUEZ, Ana M.  and  GONZALEZ GARCIA, Milagros. Qualitative approach of the experience lived by the woman of a patient with laringectomy. Index Enferm [online]. 2011, vol.20, n.1-2, pp.120-123. ISSN 1699-5988.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1132-12962011000100025.

Spain displays the high rate but of Europe of of men with a larynx cancer and a rate of survival after five years post surgery of about 66.7%. The objective of this study was to know the experience a woman turned abruptly into nursemaid of a patient submissive radical laryngeal surgery and the change into its form of life. We used the Qualitative Research Methodology of Phenomenological Trajectory. The analysis is realised with the practical proposal of Taylor-Bogdan. Of the selected categories it is interpreted that the woman lives the experience with elevated stress, the fear to the death is permanent, it turns out to him complex to realise the cares of tracheotomy. Its life and the relation and communication with its husband has changed radically.

Keywords : Tracheotomy; Laringectomy; Qualitative Research; Aftercares; Postoperative Care; Caregivers.