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What is a tracheotomy?

What is a tracheotomy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (surgery) A surgical procedure in which an incision is made into the trachea, through the neck, and a tube inserted so as to make an artificial opening in order to assist breathing.
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To instill acid or saline in the lung, we introduced a cannula via a tracheotomy.
In severe problem patients a tracheotomy or surgical opening above the Adams apple is needed.
One of the anterior jugular veins may have a midline position on the trachea and this must be remembered when performing tracheotomy.
Over time, the tracheotomy has gone by several different names, among them pharyngotomy, laryngotomy, bronchotomy, tracheostomy, and tracheotomy.
In the second case the wide development of emphysema was prevented by the early introduction of a tracheotomy tube.
A single lesion involving a tracheotomy stoma was treated with the direct application of the probe without using the bronchoscope.

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