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Buku panduan bertujuan memberi maklumat yang berguna bagi membantu pemandiri laringektomi dan penjaga mereka mengatasi pelbagai permasalahan merangkumi isu-isu perubatan, pergigian dan psikologi. Ia mengandungi maklumat mengenai kesan sampingan radioterapi dan kemoterapi, cara-cara bertutur selepas laringektomi, penjagaan salur pernafasan, penjagaan stoma, alat penukar haba dan kelembapan (heat and moisture exchange filter) dan prostesis suara. Tambahan lagi, saya ada menyentuh mengenai isu pemakanan dan penelanan, masalah gigi, kecelaruan psikologi, pernafasan dan anestesia serta berjalan jauh sebagai seorang pemandiri laringektomi. Ini juga memberi nasihat kepada laringektomees bagaimana mengatasi cabaran pandemik COVID 19.
Panduan ini bukan pengganti penjagaan kesihatan oleh profesional perubatan.
The Laryngectomee Guide in Malaysian covers medical, dental, and psychiatric issues and provides useful information to patients who had laryngectomy. It also includes information about the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, airway management, methods of speaking after laryngectomy, heat and humidity control filters, voice rehabilitation devices and how to use them. It also advises laryngectomees how to overcome the challenge of the COVID 19 pandemic. This guide is not a substitute to health care by medical professionals.
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Dr. Itzhak Brook is a physician who specializes in pediatrics and infectious diseases. He is a Professor of Pediatrics at Georgetown University Washington D.C. Dr. Brook is the author of "My Voice-a Physician's Personal Experience with Throat Cancer", " The Laryngectomee Guide", "and The Laryngectomee Guide expanded Edition". He is a board member of the Head and Neck Cancer Alliance. Dr. Brook is the recipient of the 2012 J. Conley Medical Ethics Lectureship Award by the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Brook was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2006 and became a laryngectomee in 2008.
