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TRACHEOTOMY

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 116 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TRACHEOTOMY , the operation of opening the trachea or See also:

windpipe (see See also:RESPIRATORY See also:SYSTEM) and inserting a See also:tube (canula) to provide a means of breathing when the natural See also:air-passage is obstructed. The operation is by no means easy when performed on a small See also:child, for the See also:wind-See also:pipe is deeply placed amongst important structures. The See also:chief anxiety is in connexion with See also:haemorrhage, for the vessels are large and generally overfull on See also:account of the impairment of the respiration. The higher the opening is made in the trachea the easier and safer is the operation.

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