La ostomía como causa de incapacidad laboral

  1. Mª Beatriz Crespo Fontán
  2. Corbal Obelleiro, Ana Isabel
  3. Abilleira Torres, María Flores
  4. Comesaña Goberna, María Dolores
  5. Suárez Sanmartín, María Dolores
  6. Núñez Losada, María Elisa
  7. Calvo Varela, María José
Journal:
Metas de enfermería

ISSN: 1138-7262

Year of publication: 2016

Volume: 19

Issue: 1

Type: Article

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Abstract

It is a fact that a high number of persons with ostomy, regardless of their profession before surgery, become legally disabled to continue with their work activity. Based on the experience of nurses specialized in care for ostomized patients, doubts have arisen about those potential cases in which persons are able to continue conducting their activity, once their health status allows them to. We present the case of a 40-year-old patient, who is a professional Scuba diver, diagnosed with colon adenocarcinoma, surgically treated with abdominoperineal resection and permanent colostomy, who was subsequently treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The willingness by the Scuba diver to engage again in his professional work, together with the advice and support by the stoma therapist nurse and collaboration from staff in other hospital units, made it possible to plan a strategy in order to reverse this situation, so that he could go back to his profession. Since then, this person leads a normal life, irrigating himself and using a shutter, conducting submarine immersions of sports nature with an oxygen bottle up to 40 metres, without showing complications or limitations which might prevent him from conducting his professional activity adequately.

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