If they use general anesthesia, doctors insert a breathing tube through the person’s mouth. This process is known as intubation. The type of nose surgery a person is having dictates the location ...

This type of surgery is called a flap repair. But you are only likely to need the stoma until you can breathe normally again through your nose and mouth. This is once the swelling from the flap repair ...

Nov. 30 (UPI) --Patients who receive high levels of oxygen during surgery may have a greater risk of subsequent kidney, heart and lung injury, according to a large U.S. study published Wednesday ...

During general anesthesia, you can expect to have a breathing tube placed to help you breathe. You will not be awake and will not feel pain during surgery. To begin surgery, ...

A tracheostomy tube helps you breathe after tracheotomy surgery, which creates a stoma (an opening) in your neck. A laryngectomy tube keeps a stoma open during healing. Tracheotomy and ...

A tube is placed in the stoma to keep it open. Depending on the type of tube, this can make it difficult to speak. Your doctor and speech and language therapist will work together to decide when it is ...