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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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When the patient is in a more advanced phase, the nurse is involved in care for colostomy, gastrostomy, tracheotomy, and enteral feeding.
I assisted in withdrawing the endotracheal tube from the throat as Dr. Perry was then ready to insert the tracheotomy tube.
The average delay was 21 days and 32.7 days to remove respectively the tracheotomy and the nasogastric tube.
In the second case the wide development of emphysema was prevented by the early introduction of a tracheotomy tube.
Over time, the tracheotomy has gone by several different names, among them pharyngotomy, laryngotomy, bronchotomy, tracheostomy, and tracheotomy.
A single lesion involving a tracheotomy stoma was treated with the direct application of the probe without using the bronchoscope.

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