WHEN patients have severe airway obstruction or swallowing difficulties, as may occur with bulbar poliomyelitis, the insertion of a tracheostomy tube may be required to ensure a clear airway, to ...

A tracheostomy like that undergone by Pope John Paul II on Thursday is a relatively common procedure among the elderly who are sick and having difficulty breathing, experts said Thursday, and it can ...

There is another potential advantage to the emphysematous patient to be gained from tracheostomy: the reduction of the dead space. This would allow increased alveolar ventilation for the same total ...

Babies and toddlers who need a tracheostomy – a tube surgically inserted into their windpipe to help relieve breathing problems – are at a high risk of accumulating fluid behind their eardrum when on ...

Medtronic PLC is voluntarily recalling 70,000 tracheostomy tubes for children and babies following reports that some patients had difficulty breathing while using them. Hundreds of adverse events ...

Medical devices company Covidien, which bases its U.S. operations in Mansfield, has recalled certain lots of its Shiley reusable cannula, cuffed, size 8, adult tracheostomy tubes in response to ...

Bobbi Kristina Brown is still fighting for her life after she was found face down in her bathtub three weeks ago. Several reports have claimed the 21-year-old won't make it, but the family have denied ...