Surgery without a breathing tube?
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It depends, mainly on the operation and the facilities and staff available in the operating department.\n\nThere are alternatives to a full endotracheal tube, like laryngeal mask airways and nasal airways but there are some risks involved in their use.\n\nThere are alternatives to a full general anaesthetic but often there are very good reasons, especially muscle depolorisation, which make it very much prefered for most surgery.\n\nIf you are concerned, talk to your surgeon but, in my humble opinion, it's perhaps considering whether you're risking the success of the operation to avoid some relatively mild discomfort.
905433
Usually, elective planned surgeries are not taken, when there is a respiratory infection, whether it's a active cold or lung infection. Since u're having enough time, it can be controlled well before ur planned date with adequate medicines.
556631
Get the needle that you use to inflate it. Stick it in the valve (without the pump hooked up to it) and then squeeze all the air out.
683445
The process is called intubation, and the tube is called an endotracheal tube, or ET tube for short.\n\nIt does depend on the type of operation you have, and what type of anestetic is used. Normally, if you are under "general  anestetic" you are intubated.\n\nIntubation involves the insertion of the ET tube between the vocal chords, and into the trachea. The ET tube has a hole at each end, and the end of the tube that resides in the trachea has an inflatable balloon that helps keep the tube in the proper place. \n\nOnce completed, intubation creates a "patent airway" which means that the air & oxygen is getting directly to the lungs.
819719
try it without the toilet seat
235089
This sounds like a safer procedure than putting a foreign object in your body...hmmm...
1045674
ok no surgery...i say go take a bath in some flesh-eating bacteria for, oh let's say the whole 4 hours, then come out.  or cut off your arms and legs and also the bottom half of your torso.
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Intubation is the insertion of a rubber tube, called an endotracheal tube, into the windpipe of the patient. This tube is connected to a ventilator, a machine that forces the lungs to expand and contract as well as providing concentrated oxygen to the patient.  This process is necessary in surgery, as the drugs used to induce an unconscious state cause the patient to quit breathing on their own.\n\nInduction is the process of rendering a patient unconscious before performing a medical procedure, usually surgery.  Occasionally, the patient is also chemically paralyzed.  This makes certain medical procedures (including intubation) much easier and safer to perform.
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Not very much.  The water pressure on your body would prevent you from being able to bring in air that is at normal atmospheric pressure.  You need a compressor on the surface and a hose to breath from.
79591
This page from the American Head and Neck Society has home care instructions for changing the tube and cleaning the inner cannula:\nhttp://www.headandneckcancer.org/patienteducation/docs/tracheostomy.php
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my daughter had all 4 removed under general anesthesia(sp?). some straight some not, but no room in her mouth if they started to descend. if you get anything above novacaine, and are in good physical shape, make sure they know that. she is an excellent athlete, and they put her too far under. no tragedy ~ just took her too long to wake up and scared us all half to death. her heart/lungs were in much better condition than average.. he miscalculated. \n\nother than that she had no problem, lol. \n\none aunt is a nurse ~ she is stridently against g.a. unless absolutely  necessary. accidents do happen. \n\nchoose the least sedating option you can tolerate, but realize having all four removed at once will take quite a bit of time. g.a. may be the best option if there is a lot of anxiety. \n\nrandom thoughts....\n\ngood luck to you.. ; )
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NOt a great idea,a there is a balloon attached inside, so pulling it out without deflating could be harmful.  \n\nAre finished with the tube, want a new one, can you eat without it?\n\nActually, the 800 nurse or nurse on call will probably walk you through it.  Removing the tube is not especially hard to do, you do not want to invite infection though, that is a concern.  It needs to be as clean as clean can be, you could faint, so it is best to have someone there.  It is a strange sensation. I am assuming it is a PEG tube.\n\nHere is one guy's story of peg removal:\n\nMember # 4 \n\n \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nRemoving the peg takes about 30 seconds; I actually removed my own since I was in Santa Fe, a long ways from MDACC. Some like mine have a little thin wire in them that causes the other end to "pigtail" up once they have put it in. Cut that little wire and the tube inside straightens out and you just pull it out. A 2X2 gauze and a piece of tape for one day covered things up, and that was it. No leaks, no fuss, no muss. Other types have a small, inflated balloon at the end that keeps them in. Deflate the balloon and the tube comes right out. While I am not advocating that you take your own out, I mention all this to illustrate that it is no big deal. I had mine in for about 8 months after the completion of all the treatments... it was that long before I was able to get enough nutrition through my trashed mouth and throat. I'm glad to hear that your mouth hasn't developed mucositis yet, but in my case it really didn't show up until about the third week. Also, many get a longer course of radiation than 4 weeks, and with your short schedule, you may not have as many of the side effects that you read about from others here. Let’s hope that is the case.  \n\nHere is more: \nTube Feeding \n\nWhen surgery or treatment for oral cancer affects the patient's ability to eat, a feeding tube is inserted to facilitate meeting nutritional needs. First introduced in 1980, today more than 200,000 patients every year receive this form of therapy. The location of oral cancers, and the resulting damage to the oral / esophageal tissues from treatments, makes weight maintenance and obtaining proper nutrition especially difficult.  \n \n\nFeeding tubes may be inserted through the nasal passageway for short-term use, but for those patients who require longer use of the tube, it is customary to place the tube directly into the stomach through the abdominal wall. This second method is called a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube. The feeding tube may also be put in place in anticipation of other treatments such as radiation or chemotherapy, allowing the patient to adapt to its use prior to treatments. Feeding tubes are not painful and are not easily visible when wearing normal clothes. When not in use, they can simple be taped to the patients stomach to prevent them from moving around under clothing. \n\nPEG tubes are placed with the aid of an endoscope, the scope going down the throat to assist in guiding the placement of the tube through the wall of the stomach. The surgery is simple and involves little risk or discomfort. The procedure takes about 20 minutes. The PEG tube extends from the interior of the stomach to outside the body through a small incision only slightly larger than the tube itself in the abdominal wall. The tube is prevented from coming out of the stomach by one of several methods. Some brands have a small wire within the tube, which after insertion is pulled from the exterior end of the tubing causing the portion within the stomach to curl up or “pigtail,” preventing it from being pulled out. Other systems employ a very small balloon at the end of the tube which is inflated within the stomach after insertion, serving the same purpose. Removal of the tube simple involves cutting the wire which created the pigtail, or deflating
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Extubating patients when they're awake because you know that they can breathe on their own. While they're still under anesthesia, there's still the possibility they might not get enough oxygen on their own or have difficulty breathing on their own. Once they're awake and no longer under anesthesia, their brain has better control of their breathing. People freak out about the tracheal tube because you're not used to having things shoved down your throat when you wake up. But you do need to wait for them to wake up and try to keep them calm when they wake up, reassuring them that you'll take the tube out soon.
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My doctor said no.\n\nEither it can't be done, or he just wanted the $$$!\n\nDon't be scared of the surgery...I lived to tell about it, and so did two co-workers and 2 friends!
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You cant suffocate yourself by holding your breath or putting you hand over your mouth/nose. Your body has a built in survival instinct. However , if you use something over your head you just might suffocate. That is why they put warnings on things such as plastic bags that say they are not a toy.\n\nMessing with breathing is dangerous. At the least if you have no oxygen for several minutes you will suffer brain damage.
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Generally someone is under anesthesia.  The gas is under pressure before it goes to the patient.  Pneumatic pressure would be important in this.
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defenatly take someone with you.  i've told this to someone else in another question, but i stand by it, chew gum.  it sounds weird but doing something with your mouth is calming.  don't look at the needle whatever you do.  focus on something on the wall.  theres usually a poster in the room.  read that.  i really hope everything goes well and don't forget to breath.