Question

The nurse reviews teaching with a client who has laryngeal cancer and is scheduled for a total laryngectomy and radical neck dissection. The nurse concludes that the teaching is effective when the client makes which statement about what he will be able to do after recovering from surgery?

Answer 1

I guess I will still be able to chew and swallow foods after the surgery.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Larynx is a respiratory organs, which houses the vocal cord, the structure which produces sounds when sound waves passes through it.it connects posterioly the mouth, and nose to the lungs.It is therefore a respiratory organ.

Swallowing of water and food substances from the mouth is by the Oesophagus. Through peristaltic movements.It is a narrow, muscular connecting tube which links the buccal cavity(mouth) with the stomach.

Therefore laryngectomy ( removal of the larynx )does not affects the oesophagus and will not affect chewing and movements of food down to the stomach. Food passes through a separate tracts of the G I tracts, and not the respiratory parts which is Larynx.

Answer 2

After the surgery, the patient will continue to heal and he will ask the doctor about:

• When and how he can eat and swallow as his throat will be hurting.
• He will also ask when he can start communicating without the use of his larynx. and if he would require speech therapy.