tracheostomy

Without a tracheostomy, patients' lungs stop working on their own.

Though the tube was still in place, she no longer had to cover her tracheostomy site to speak.

He was treated as an emergency case, and given a tracheostomy.

I had to have a tracheostomy operation that removed my voice.

For example, do you want a tracheostomy if your breathing problems become severe?

He was also submitted to a tracheostomy, to help him breathe.

The time needed for the opening of the tracheostomy to heal varies.

In some cases, a temporary tracheostomy may be necessary.

Sometimes even a tracheostomy is necessary to maintain an adequate airway.

However, the tracheostomy removed my ability to speak altogether.

Mutual support and information sharing for persons who have, or anticipate having, a tracheostomy.

Fabricius was the first to introduce the idea of a tracheostomy tube.

A tracheostomy is typically only placed by a physician.

A tracheostomy is a surgically created passage into the trachea.

During the speech, he also mentioned he had undergone a tracheostomy.

She now has a tracheostomy and wears a necklace of wire with a silver button in the middle.

On the fifteenth of June nineteen eighty seven she underwent a tracheostomy.

Complications and risks that may occur with a tracheostomy include:

The main side effect of tracheostomy is that you have a hole in your throat where the breathing tube sits.

Sometimes an opening is made directly into the airway (tracheostomy or cricothyrotomy).

This may be congenital or acquired, for example as a complication of a tracheostomy.

For decades, tracheostomy was the only effective treatment for sleep apnea.

By contrast, a conventional tracheostomy hole is much bigger, about the width of a man's index finger.

Unless the hole in the tracheostomy tube is covered, normal speech is impossible.

He has a tracheostomy and must receive supplemental feedings through a tube in his stomach.