What is the procedure called where doctors cut ur throat?
As first answer says- it’s a hole in the throat (in medicine, anything ending with osomy is making an opening into something). It’s an emergency we’re taught to use in a “can’t intubate, can’t ventelate” situation. This is the procedure you hear about people performing with a biro on a plane (although I’d imagine that nowadays planes carry enough gear to do a reasonable aeseptic job of it without resorting to a Bic!) Basically, we’d insert a cannula (as big as we thought we could get away with!); aiming for the spaces between the second and third tracheal rings (count down from the cricoid cartilage) and ventilate the patient through that. For a more permanent solution, there are cuffed tubes available. Anaesthesia UK article below (scroll down for the meat).
tracheotomy. They’re looking for the most prominent part of the larynx for anatomical reference so they’ll know where to cut. If you run the tip of your finger straight down from the highest point about 1/2 -3/4 inch below is the where the tracheal rings start and that’s where they want to do the tracheotomy. Running on both sides of that spot are the inominate arteries. This is why they have to be precise as to where they cut or they’ll slice one of these arteries. Sometimes these arteries aren’t where they’re supposed to be so the surgeon has to find the pulsations to make sure they are in the right place. Then he/she must cut a window in the tracheal cartilage so a tracheostomy tube can be put through it. It can’t be too small nor too big. for different reasons. If its too small, when they insert the tube they might do damage and if it’s too big it won’t hold tight and it’ll “flop” around and be that much harder to heal. So anyway I hope this is what you’re looking for. God bless. W
