JERUSALEM – Doctors successfully performed a tracheotomy on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Sunday to help wean him off a respirator that has been helping him breathe since he suffered a massive ...

In the observation period, 44 patients with the diagnosis of oropharyngeal carcinoma had undergone surgery at the University Medical Center Regensburg. 5 (10.6%) patients were diagnosed with UICC ...

Surgically opening the windpipe, or trachea, within the first seven days of the start of mechanical ventilation decreases the time patients spend on ventilators, shortens their ICU stay and lowers ...

Vatican Press Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls confirmed a short time ago that doctors at Rome’s Gemelli hospital have successfully performed a tracheotomy on Pope John Paul II. The Vatican indicated ...

THIS discussion is concerned with the uses of tracheostomy and mechanical respiratory devices in managing the problems encountered in a large hospital. The material presented here was obtained by a ...

“Flip or Flop” regular Frank “The Tank” offered an update on his health this week as he continues to battle cancer, saying that he was undergoing a tracheotomy after his airway began to close. In a ...

VATICAN CITY—Ailing Pope John Paul II is under doctor's orders not to talk, but he's breathing on his own and even writing notes and jokes since his tracheotomy surgery, Vatican officials said Friday.

After years of struggling to breathe and fearing she might suffocate in her sleep, Sonia Sein says she feels well enough to dance around with her grandchildren after undergoing the first-ever human ...

“Flip or Flop” regular Frank “The Tank” offered an update on his health this week as he continues to battle cancer, saying that he was undergoing a tracheotomy after his airway began to close. In a ...