A patient who had a laryngectomy 3 months earlier returns to the physician's office with the complaint of increasing dyspnea. Which common postlaryngectomy complication should the nurse recognize this complaint as indicating?
a. Hypertrophied stoma
b. Salivary fistula
c. Carotid blowout
d. Tracheal stenosis
D
Tracheal stenosis causes the otherwise healthy recovering patient who has undergone a laryn-gectomy to experience increased dyspnea.
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