A tracheostomy tube helps you breathe after tracheotomy surgery, which creates a stoma (an opening) in your neck. A laryngectomy tube keeps a stoma open during healing. Tracheotomy and laryngectomy ...

Percutaneous tracheostomy is a minimally invasive procedure doctors perform to establish an artificial airway. It is an alternative to traditional surgical tracheostomy. People with critical illnesses ...

An obturator is a curved rod that fits inside the tracheal cannula, which is a tube inserted into the trachea during tracheostomy. Tracheostomy is a surgical procedure that creates an opening in the ...

Cricothyrotomy and tracheostomy are medical procedures that allow people to breathe when their airways are blocked. Cricothyrotomy is an emergency procedure, while tracheostomy is usually for ...