The communication of the tracheostomized patient: an integrated review

ABSTRACT It is an integrative review aiming at knowing the scientific production and analyze the strategies on the communication of the tracheostomized patient. The search on the site of the Virtual Health Library (Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde - BVS), with the descriptors "communication and tracheostomy", resulted in publications of the Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe de Informação em Ciências da Saúde - LILACS), International Literature (MEDLINE), and Coleciona SUS databases. Scientific articles published between 2001 and 2015 were considered, as they represented the period of the greatest scientific production involving adults, and unrestrictedly for Spanish, English and Portuguese idioms or the type of study. Sixteen (16) publications, comprising 15 articles and 1 thesis, were selected, which were classified by categories: knowledge, communication and supporting resources. From the analyzed publications, it is verified that the concern on the communication of tracheostomized patients has been an increasing theme in the context of the scientific production in the past decade.