Surgically opening the windpipe, or trachea, within the first seven days of the start of mechanical ventilation decreases the time patients spend on ventilators, shortens their ICU stay and lowers ...

The newborn was struggling to breathe. Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in July with Pierre Robin Sequence, a rare craniofacial condition that consists of upper airway obstruction, the 3-day-old baby girl ...

Nick Cordero will undergo a procedure on Friday that will see a tracheostomy tube, otherwise known as a trach tube, placed into an opening in his throat at the windpipe called a stoma. The trach tube ...