Proposal for vocal rehabilitation in patients extubated by COVID-19

Vocal reeducation is known as a set of breathing, relaxation and posture techniques, which together help us to improve the quality of voice production after dysphonia due to vocal use and abuse, or a treatment that has been invasive for the patient's vocal cords. The objective of the following study is to investigate about the patients who have been intubated by SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19), through the statistics that the General Hospital 450 of the State of Durango can provide us, to raise awareness about the damage caused, and especially the intervention of the Human Communication Therapist, in the area of voice such as vocal reeducation. For this research, a study of 83 people infected from March 2020 to December 2020 was carried out, of which only 18 presented voice problems. It is worth mentioning that not all of these patients survived; of these 83, only 17 were successfully intubated, but of these successful extubations, only eight survived. These results, tell us that, not only they need to be extubated, but also, they must survive, since, to intubation being an invasive method, patients mostly fail to survive.