About a week ago, the doctors temporarily closed the tracheostomy as part of their effort to wean the man from the ventilator.
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Respiratory muscle weakness, tracheostomy, or vocal cord pathology ( including paralysis or anesthesia ) may prevent effective clearing of the airways.
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These drawbacks led to the development of more modern positive-pressure ventilators and the use of positive-pressure ventilation by tracheostomy.
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Georg Detharding ( 1671 1747 ), professor of anatomy at the University of Rostock, treated a drowning victim with tracheostomy in 1714.
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In 1833, Trousseau invented the Trousseau Tracheal Dilator, a blunt-nosed forcep designed to allow easier access to a tracheostomy stoma.
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Many of the patients have Gastrostomy Tube ( G-Tube ), Tracheostomy Care ( Trach ), or Ventilator ( Vent ).
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This operation has been identified as the first recorded successful tracheostomy, despite many ancient references to the trachea and possibly to its opening.
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The trachea may be injured by tracheostomy or tracheal intubation; in cases of tracheal injury, large amounts of air can enter the subcutaneous space.
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In cases of respiratory obstruction, Tracheostomy should be done . but if there is no response, injectable corticosteroids are used to reduce the lesion.
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Over inflation of the cuff causes the tracheostomy tube to erode into the posterior aspect of the innominate artery leading to the formation of a fistula.
