1st Luxembourg Course in Voice and Pulmonary Rehabilitation after Total Laryngectomy
Program
Friday, April 26
11.30 Registration and lunch
13.00 Welcome – Marc Remacle , CHL Luxembourg
13.10. 40 years after…A little bit of history Marc Remacle CHL, Luxembourg
13.40 Esophageal and Tracheoesophageal voice How to make it faster and more efficient
14.00 Primary and secondary setting Peter Kress, Trier, Germany
How? When ? Why?
Respective indications
Techniques
15.00 Coffe-break
15.30 Voice prosthesis Aniel Sewnaik, Rianne Vermeij, EMC Rotterdam
What are the contra-indications ?
16.00 What prosthesis to chose ? Aniel Sewnaik , Nurse Rianne EMC Rotterdam
16.30 Setting the HME
17.00 Adjourn – Welcome drink
19.00 Dinner
Saturday, April 27
07.30 Registration and breakfast
08.00 Dealing with problems and complications- From the minor to the major. Georges Lawson, UCL – CHU Namur
- Leakage
- The tractus
- Superinfection
- Too much of reflux
- Hypertonicity…
- The failures of voice prosthesis rehabilitation
09.00 Pulmonary function after Total Laryngectomy – Pauline Janssen EMC Rotterdam
- How to protect it
- How to improve
10.00 Coffee –break
10.30 Prosthesis on order – The special ones. Sebastien Vandervorst UCL-CHU Namur
- When and why
11.30 Enjoying life
- How to take a shower
- How to swim
- How to sing
- What about my partner
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Workshops
The Doctors’ corner
Peter Kress, Trier, Germany
Aniel Sewnaik, Rianne Vermeij
EMC Rotterdam,
Marc Remacle CHL, Luxembourg
- Voice prosthesis placement and replacement
- Small leakages around the prosthesis : fat? Renu? Hyaluronic acid
- Larytube : multiple fenestrations or one window
- Sternohyoid muscles: when to cut them and how
- Reshaping the stoma
- Closing a fistula – How difficult it is
- What I would like to have
The Speech therapist’ corner Pauline Janssen EMC Rotterdam, Laetitia Welsch CHL, Luxembourg
- How to inform the patient
- Men and women : a different approach?
- How to proceed during the healing time
- Writing
- Computer
- How to train the patient
- Fitting of adhesive baseplates and HME
15.00 Conclusions and closing
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