tracheostomy


This is a photograph of a patient with a tracheostomy which is an artificial opening made surgically into the trachea through the neck in which a tube in inserted It is used for patients on long term ventilation and patients with problems of the larynx


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Photo credit: © Mediscan / Alamy / Afripics
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