(n.) The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most of the bilateral lung lesions were removed through a median sternotomy so as to avoid staged bilateral thoracotomy.
(2) Treatment was always surgical, with the following procedures: Laparotomy and chest drainage tube in 7 cases (21%), thoracotomy in 12 cases (36%) and a combined thoracoabdominal approach in 14 (43%).
(3) Ventricular fibrillation was then induced and, after predetermined downtimes ranging from 5 to 60 minutes, thoracotomy was performed, and open-chest bimanual cardiac massage was started.
(4) Muscle sparing thoracotomy can be used safely for most thoracic procedures and we believe it permits easier pain control and early preservation of full shoulder motion.
(5) We report a case of large tracheal (cervical thoracic) rupture after using an endotracheal tube, which needed to be repaired via a double surgical approach: cervicotomy and right thoracotomy.
(6) It is however, possible to seek the role of the anesthetic, the thoracotomy or the extracorporeal circulation itself and its load, quite independent of prior changes due to decompensation or not of the congenital heart disease, whether or not it has been treated.
(7) We reached the following conclusions: The incidence of operative phrenic nerve injury in infants undergoing lateral thoracotomy, particularly for Blalock-Taussig shunt, is higher than generally appreciated; plication is a safe procedure as performed by either an abdominal or thoracic approach; failure to achieve extubation within a week of plication is an ominous prognostic sign; mortality in patients with eventration in the presence of major associated conditions may be high despite plication.
(8) The interaction of histamine (Hist) and acetylcholine (ACh) on human isolated bronchial smooth muscle (HIBSM) contraction, and the influence of the epithelium, was assessed using HIBSM obtained from 15 patients undergoing thoracotomy.
(9) In all patients the oesophageal resection was performed transhiatally without thoracotomy with blunt dissection.
(10) In some cases this has led to the misdiagnosis of mediastinal pathology and an unnecessary thoracotomy.
(11) In second group after thoracotomy the lungs were stabilized with gelatin-resorcin-formaldehyde glue.
(12) Emergency center thoracotomy was performed at our facility on 389 patients from 1984 through 1989.
(13) The operations were performed after thoracotomy on the working closed heart.
(14) A double-blind randomised study was performed to investigate the effect of pH adjustment of bupivacaine, with adrenaline 1:200,000, on the duration of block and pain relief after intercostal nerve blockade following thoracotomy.
(15) The following particular benefits are obtainable from the method: no need for thoracotomy; local anesthesia applicable to 65% of all cases; 30 mm average time of intervention; only moderate invasiveness to the patients; only 7 days of hospitalization; good cost-benefit ratio.
(16) A retrospective review of 16 consecutive cases of squamous carcinoma of the hypopharynx treated by pharyngo-laryngo-oesophagectomy (PLO) and gastric transposition with a thoracotomy as part of the surgical technique is presented.
(17) Thoracotomy revealed a fibro-angio-myxoma attached to the right side of the interatrial septum, and it was removed in toto.
(18) Thoracotomy for aspergilloma was followed by bronchopleural fistula in one of two cases--approximately the ratio found in the literature.
(19) The technique causes considerably less pain and interference with respiratory function postoperatively than does conventional thoracotomy.
(20) The diagnosis was made on specimens obtained from three patients by open thoracotomy.
Tracheotomy
Definition:
(n.) The operation of making an opening into the windpipe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Children with tracheotomy tubes are frequently cared for by nurses in critical care settings, as well as on general patient care units.
(2) The risk factors were: duration of urinary or vascular catheterization, tracheal intubation, tracheotomy and artificial ventilation.
(3) The only incidents seen were related to the lack of tracheotomy: subcutaneous oedema of the neck during the postoperative period in eight patients and moderate tracheobronchial congestion in five patients.
(4) Nevertheless, the right vocal cord mobility, driven only by the right superior laryngeal nerve, was enough to secure an adequate airway without the need for a tracheotomy.
(5) Electromyographic activity of the CT and right posterior cricoarytenoid muscle was monitored in anesthetized cats during tracheotomy breathing and in response to tracheal or upper airway occlusion in the intact animal.
(6) Tracheotomy in children has two main fields of indication: 1) obstructions of the upper respiratory tract, the main cause being today the post-intubation stenosis; 2) long term mechanical ventilation.
(7) We reviewed 265 rigid bronchoscopies performed in 50 children with tracheotomy-dependent subglottic stenosis (25 congenital, 25 acquired).
(8) Only three patients had complications linked to the tracheotomy, complications which were the cause of the death of two of them.
(9) After multiple childhood laryngoscopies and a tracheotomy, a 54-year-old, 30-pack per year smoker, who had never received radiation therapy, developed a florid exophytic transglottic squamous cell carcinoma.
(10) Disadvantages include the propensity for excessive mucus production (needing tracheotomy), the requirement for an abdominal operation, and the possibility of peptic ulceration (no case reported in the literature).
(11) The efficiency of this method has been proven and it is a method that must be preferable to tracheotomy.
(12) Granulomas treated after mucosal trauma (tracheotomy, foreign body).
(13) Discharging a child home with a tracheotomy is a process that involves many people.
(14) A translaryngeal tube can be converted to a tracheotomy safely in burn victims; tracheotomies are easier to manage if burns of the neck are excised and grafted prior to placement.
(15) The association of these disorders with severe laryngeal injury should lead to consideration of earlier tracheotomy in such patients.
(16) Three of the infants with respiratory failure required tracheotomy.
(17) (5) The importance of temporary intubation to relieve respiratory obstruction in infants is stressed, while the significant laryngeal damage following prolonged intubation and delayed tracheotomy is apparent.
(18) Eighteen patients treated by nasotracheal intubation were devoid of sequelae, whereas of six patients in whom tracheotomy was performed, one developed an ugly scar and two had slight tracheal stenosis at the tracheostomy site.
(19) The main advantages and purposes of the AO approach are early active pain-free functional movement; avoidance of intermaxillary fixation; safe, secured airways without tracheotomies, especially in polytraumatized patients; and shorter periods of hospitalization.
(20) Tracheotomies for children with CNS disorders and craniofacial anomalies are relatively more frequent.