Example Sentences

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Patients who survive coma after severe brain injury typically require feeding tubes for nutrition, tracheostomies that allow them to breathe through a tube in the neck and weeks to months of rehabilitation.

From Scientific American • Oct. 21, 2022

Now she is turning her attention to tracheostomies, where a tube is inserted through the neck and into the windpipe to improve breathing.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2021

Some have tracheostomies and require mechanical ventilation, with homes equipped with oxygen and back-up oxygen and power generators.

From Slate • Oct. 20, 2016

Plenty of people “with tracheostomies and ventilators” are “able to work, go to school, and live in their communities.”

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2016

They were patients who’d already had tracheostomies — surgical holes in their throat.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2011