Abstract
The paper evaluates the quality of life after tracheostomy in a group of 31 persons treated at the ORL Clinic of Faculty Hospital in Hradec Králové. Patients older than 50 years prevailed, most of them (87%) being in the 6th or 7th decennium.
The basic disease which required tracheostomy to be performed was the cancer of the larynx in 24 patients, and the other patients suffered form bilateral paralysis of recurrent nerve after strumectomy. For evaluating the quality of life the authors selected the questionnaire method SEIQoL (Schedule for the Evaluation of Quality of Life).