tracheotomy tube

But it would be five months before he returned, weakened and breathing through a tracheotomy tube.

A modern tracheotomy tube came from the private reserve of the head of intensive care, for instance.

The removal of a tracheotomy tube is referred to as decannulation.

The medical kit contained no tracheotomy tube, but it did have an esophageal airway.

It ends with images of the children: one in a wheelchair, another breathing through a tracheotomy tube and the third represented by a tombstone.

She had a stomach tube for feeding and a tracheotomy tube for breathing.

A ventilator the size of a small refrigerator was connected to his tracheotomy tube, whooshing every time it delivered a breath.

A nurse tells Lozanne that she must learn how to maintain Jon's tracheotomy tube.

He underwent a tracheotomy on Oct. 22 to relieve a breathing obstruction, and the tracheotomy tube is still in place.

Ms. Auerbach said that one child approached a patient with a tracheotomy tube in her neck and asked, "What's that?"

The other night, Mr. Hammer drove through whirling snow to suction and clean around Jorian's tracheotomy tube.

Other surgical innovations developed by Negus included an operating table (known as the King's College table), and a speaking valve for use in tracheotomy tubes.

The Federal Food and Drug Administration has approved Micro-Trach for marketing as an existing device, a tiny tracheotomy tube, put to a new use.

For instance, Alain Milhay from Amiens, France, invented a tracheotomy tube with shield for anesthesia in 1983.

Mr. Morrison, a patient at Coler-Goldwater Memorial Hospital, was lying in his bed, breathing through a tracheotomy tube in his throat.

Eating solid food will be just as big of a milestone as the day his tracheotomy tube was removed at age 4, or the moment he sat up for the first time at 2.

She sawed off limbs, put tracheotomy tubes in the wall of the throat, took out stomachs, penetrated to every part of the intestines, plundered the inside of the pelvic girdle.

The ventilator may require an invasive endotracheal or tracheotomy tube through which air is directly delivered, but, for some people non-invasive delivery through a face mask or mouthpiece is sufficient.

William Bonadio's decision to work with children instead of adults was made when he came upon a roomful of people who, having just undergone surgery for throat cancer, were smoking cigarettes through their tracheotomy tubes.

The many possible complications include hemorrhage, loss of airway, subcutaneous emphysema, wound infections, stomal cellulites, fracture of tracheal rings, poor placement of the tracheotomy tube, and bronchospasm".

Johnny entered a state doctors refer to as "locked in": he is able to think, reason and comprehend what is going on around him, but unable to talk, touch or even breathe without the aid of a tracheotomy tube.

In a spot entitled Voice Box, a 50-ish woman complains that her addiction has made it impossible to live without cigarettes; she then takes a deep drag on her cigarette through a tracheotomy tube in her throat.

He had intravenous lines in his arms; he had many blood tests drawn; he had a tracheotomy tube - in other words a breathing tube - attached into his neck, and all these things must be somewhat uncomfortable.

The tracheotomy tube placed into the incision through the windpipe comes in various sizes, thus allowing a more comfortable fit and the ability to remove the tube in and out of the throat without disrupting support from a breathing machine.

She began to train with the microgravity emergency medical kit, until she could unerringly find each piece upside-down and blindfolded: tracheotomy tubes, laryngoscope, oxygen mask, miniature oxygen tank, compresses, syringes, dressings, adhesives, scalpel, stethoscope, blood oximeter.