RESUMO
Endotracheal or tracheotomy tube in mchanical ventilated patients disturb their verbal communication with others. So patients are frustrated of repuesting their needs or problems related to their artificaial breathing. Therefore, an investigation of their own experiences can be applied in providing them with a better care by clinical personnel. This is a qualitative phenomenological survey. The population studied was patients who were mechanically ventilated at least for one time and were more than 12 years old. Data were collected during five months by deep interview and then were analyzed by Collizzi seven-stage method. The findings of research were classified in 139 codes and three categories as: 1] Interapersonal experiences, 2] Extra personal experiences 3] Interpersonal experiences. Mechanically ventilated patients tolerate a lot of stressors of that many are externally sustained. Better care reduces these stressors, and make it easier for the patients to get along with the artificial breathing. Meanwhile, some pleasant experiences were mentioned by patients in this study