Word: trachea
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...resembles a boxer's headgear. Below that, a portion of his shoulders shows above the metal ventilator box, which looks like a robot's backpack and is carried behind the chair on a metal shelf. The translucent tracheostomy tube (trach) leads from the box to the slit in his trachea below his Adam's apple. When he speaks, he must catch the ventilator on the outward breath, finish one sentence and get at least a word into the following sentence to signal his listener that he has something more...
...wrong place at the wrong time," he says. "It could happen to anyone." But that's not enough. "Sometimes it's so hard," he whispers. "I get high temperatures and real sweaty, and I get these pains." He breathes on his own through a hole in his trachea, which a nurse closes with a plug when Johnson wants to talk. "At first I wanted to die. Now I'm happy to be alive, but I just want to get more feeling back." His voice is meek, beaten, almost hollow. When talk turns to football and basketball, he makes gulping, swallowing...
Tetsoro Fujiwara, a Japanese researcher, began surfactant replacement therapy in infants, the results of which were reported in 1980. Fujiwara was able to achieve success in this therapy through the use of calf-lung surfactant administered as a liquid into the trachea...
Part of the success of surfactant therapy has been the efficiency of liquid administration, says Avery. With infusion down the trachea, 20 times the amount of the substance reaches the lungs as compared with aerosol treatment, which was previously the standard method of administration of pulmonary drugs...