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• n  a surgical operation that creates an opening into the trachea with a tube inserted to provide a passage for air; performed when the pharynx is obstructed by edema or cancer or other causes

• While the Vatican had expressed most of its concern about breathing difficulty, which was alleviated with a tracheotomy, Pavanelli says a readily apparent loss of weight, and an .
• And if she needed to, she could probably pull off a pretty decent tracheotomy.
• The hospital's doctors had already performed a tracheotomy making an entrance in his throat for a tube leading to a positive-pressure machine that was pumping air in and out of .

• tracheostomy

News & Articles

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• Pennsylvania girl who sued for lung transplants goes home
  By Natalie Pompilio NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa (Reuters) - The Pennsylvania girl who underwent a double lung transplant after a court battle over U.S. organ donation policies waved slowly and mouthed "Hi" to well wishers on Tuesday, her first day home from the hospital. Dressed from head to toe in pink except for a blue tracheotomy tube in her neck, 11-year-old Sarah Murnaghan was carried by her parents ...
  Aug. 27, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Craig Rivet in San Jose Mercury News
  I skated up to him and I could see him holding his throat,Rivet said. "I told him to stay down. But he skated to our bench and collapsed there. Within 10 minutes he was having a tracheotomy. Five minutes longer and he would have died....
• St Jerome in Seattle Times
  A tracheotomy is an unusual procedure in the management of thyroid cancer,said Dr. Jerome Hershman, a thyroid-cancer specialist at the University of California, Los Angeles' Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
• Paul Dumbrell in The Age
  He had a tracheotomy last night. They are hoping he will begin speaking next week. He is amazingly strong mentally, and that is something in his favour. He is very tough and determined to get through this,Paul said. "When he was in...