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Case report: the importance of multiprofessional care in supracricoid laryngectomy

This study is about theperfomance multiprofissional on laryngectomy supracricoid. The speech therapy in the hospital was carried out twice a day, after 14 sessions, pasty consistency was released. The patient returned to the disfagia outpatient of the hospital, once a week for two months and now returns once a month. Nutritional therapy nasoenteric probe (NEP) allowed the necessary caloric intake and hydration and, through the release of consistency by oral Audiologist, the nutritionist expanded the options of foods that the patient could eat, favoring the profit of weight and withdrawal of the alternative way of feeding.The multiprofessional intervention enabled the degree of oropharyngeal dysphagia mechanical evolve from severe to mild oropharyngeal dysphagia for liquids only, being the evolution of therapy being verified through the patient's oral intake, which evolved from a FOIS 1 for FOIS 3 and is currently third in the FOIS 6. The realization of enteral nutrition therapy enabled the patient to regain his usual weight, on three months period, considering that with surgery, it lost 11 kg. It was noted that through the accompaniment multiprofessional, was possible evolve from an exclusive enteral nutrition to oral diet, which favored the evolution of nutritional status, with the recovery of body weight, addition to providing improved quality of life of this person.

Deglutition Disorders; Weight Loss; Laryngectomy; Enteral Nutrition; Patient Care Team; Rehabilitation


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