Case of Tracheotomy successfully Performed

Surgical tracheotomy performed with and without dual antiplatelet therapy

Some patients who need dual antiplatelet therapy sometimes require tracheotomy. Aim of this study was to compare the rate of complications during and after surgical tracheotomy between patients requiring dual antiplatelet therapy and those without dual antiplatelet therapy. We retrospectively included 79 patients (62% men, mean age 64 ± 14 years) in the period 2007-2011. The following complicat...

A Case of Asphyxia Followed by Tracheotomy

A sepoy, 2nd Regiment M. N. I., aged 42, service 21 years, had been lately under treatment for fever of a continued type with himbrici, and after being discharged from Hospital 20 days was suddenly attacked, after his evening meal, with such dyspnoea and violent coughing that lie was obliged to go to the Kegimental Hospital, whero he was admitted under the head of bronchitis, and after 6 days w...

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...

Case of Diphtheria Treated by Tracheotomy, Peptonised Enemata and Iodoform

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 ...