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 ...

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 ...

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.

Patients who undergo tracheotomy should be carefully monitored for a while after surgery, say Turkish researchers. Surgeons should be aware of the significant increases in thyroid hormones that can ...

A person with a tracheostomy has a higher risk than usual of aspiration, which means they may take unwanted substances into their airways. A tracheostomy is a procedure in which a surgeon makes an ...

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 ...