A MODIFICATION IN TRACHEOTOMY

The tracheotomy punch for urgent tracheotomy.

Tracheotomy is a commonly performed surgical technique used for long-term mechanical ventilation, upper airway obstruction, need for pulmonary toilet, and as an adjunct to surgery where ventilation is anticipated. Urgent tracheotomy may be performed when difficulty is encountered during an elective tracheotomy, or when cricothyroidotomy is impossible or contraindicated due to distorted anatomy ...

Tracheotomy in leprosy.

Tracheotomy in pediatric patients: a national perspective.

BACKGROUND During the past 50 years, changes in the epidemiology of infectious diseases and the capabilities of medical technology have altered the indications for, and implications of, tracheotomy in children. Given the complexity of health care that these patients subsequently require, monitoring the performance of this procedure and patient outcomes across the diverse US health care system i...

Tracheotomy in a Case of Laryngitis: Recovery

the 5th. of January 1877. Stated that he had been suffering from occasional fits of dyspnoea for the last 3 or 4 months, and that lately his voice also has become hoarse ; has led a very irregular and dissipated life since his boyhood, and had syphilis and bubo about 20 years ago. Used sundry native drugs and was salivated. Is father of 3 children, two of whom died at an early age, one from cho...

Tracheotomy in Laryngeal Diphtheria

"Retraction of the soft parts of the anterior chest wall during inspiration, together with the more or less complete suppression of voice, are the indications par excellence for the performance of tracheotomy. "Tracheotomy is in no sense a therapeutic measure; therefore, neither the local nor the general treatment of diphtheria should be suspended after the performance of the operation. " The c...