2024年11月13日 · A tracheostomy is a surgically created hole, also called a stoma, in your windpipe, also known as your trachea. This hole allows air to pass into your windpipe to help with breathing when the usual way of breathing is blocked or reduced.

2024年1月26日 · A tracheostomy, also known as a tracheotomy, is a medical procedure that involves creating an opening in the neck in order to place a tube into a person’s trachea, or windpipe. The tube may be ...

2025年2月12日 · A tracheostomy is a hole your surgeon makes through your neck and into your trachea (windpipe) to help you breathe. This new passage delivers oxygen to your lungs by bypassing your nose, mouth and throat.

Tracheostomy is a procedure to help air and oxygen reach the lungs by creating an opening into the trachea (windpipe) from outside the neck. A person with a tracheostomy breathes through a tracheostomy tube inserted in the opening. A tracheostomy may be performed on a person with a problem that prevents air and oxygen from reaching the lungs.

2024年2月27日 · A tracheostomy is a hole that a doctor creates in your windpipe to help you breathe. Learn more about when you would need a tracheostomy, the procedure, aftercare, risks, and results.

2024年5月7日 · A tracheostomy, also called a tracheotomy, is a surgical procedure that involves making an incision in the skin of the neck and through the trachea (windpipe) in order to facilitate breathing. It is often, but not always, done in an emergency.

2023年7月24日 · Tracheostomy is one of the earliest surgical procedures recorded, with illustrations depicting it as early as 3600 B.C. in ancient Egypt. A tracheostomy (or tracheotomy, while there are technical differences, these terms are colloquially used interchangeably.

What Is a Tracheostomy? A tracheostomy is an opening in the front of the neck that’s made during an emergency procedure or a planned surgery. It makes an airway for people who are not breathing on their own, cannot breathe well, or have a blockage that is affecting their breathing.

A tracheotomy is a small opening, also known as the stoma, made in the windpipe (trachea). The tracheostomy tube will be placed in the stoma. This surgical procedure is done under general anesthesia in the operating room.

Tracheostomy tubes allow people who cannot breathe on their own to be connected to a ventilator (breathing machine) or receive additional oxygen. It also allows air to bypass an injury or blockage in the face, throat or in the upper part of the windpipe to reach the lungs. This fact sheet discusses use of a tracheostomy in an adult.