The patient who had a laryngectomy 3 months ago returns to the physician's office with the complaint of increasing dyspnea. The nurse recognizes this complaint as an indication of the common postlaryngectomy complication of:
1. hypertrophied stoma.
2. salivary fistula.
3. carotid blowout
4. tracheal stenosis.
4
Tracheal stenosis causes the otherwise healthy recovering laryngectomy patient to experience increased dyspnea.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: 1229
OBJ: 4 TOP: Postoperative Complications of Laryngectomy
KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: Physiological Integrity
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