A tracheostomy is a small hole that’s surgically made at the front of the neck and into the windpipe, or trachea. It helps the lungs fill with air and may be performed when an obstruction or ...

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You might have a temporary or a permanent stoma. Your doctor can tell you which type of stoma you need. You keep the tracheostomy until the voice box heals. Then, the tracheostomy tube is taken out ...

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with widening of intercanthal space treated by immediate management using portex tracheotomy tube as scaffold to the crushed nasal skeleton. Ruptured eyes due to a primary blast wave, or due to a ...

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