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...duplicate that miracle, Staffieri made a small slit in the esophagus of a laryngectomy patient. Then he flapped part of the esophageal wall over the top of the trachea, forming a valve linking windpipe and pharynx. To speak, the patient simply placed a finger over the external breathing hole in the neck. Exhaled from the lungs, air was forced through the internal esophageal slit, allowing the pharynx to vibrate and create sounds. But the valve could open only when air from the lungs forced it open. When food or liquid came down the esophagus, the valve remained closed...
...heart was still beating, a little fast, a little weak. His blood pressure had been dangerously high before the tracheotomy. It stabilized near normal after the throat tube relieved pressure caused by blood and mucus in the trachea. "The heart started to stabilize too, so we could operate," Cuneo later told TIME Correspondent Tim Tyler. Ethel Kennedy had been there all the while, standing in a different section of the room. "I told her we were taking X rays, that her husband was extremely critical...
...reflex arc of mechanism usually involved in hiccups is not entirely understood. The phrenic and vagus nerves are known to be part of it; Dr. Salem thought that it might often include irritation of the trachea, or windpipe. Using a catheter introduced through the nose, he and his colleagues tried spraying the back of the throat with a local anesthetic. They soon noticed, however, that the mere introduction of the catheter stopped the hiccups without drugs...
Thigh Flaps. After two months of healing came the crucial second stage. Where almost three inches of windpipe (trachea) was missing above the neck opening, Dr. Montgomery constructed a new windpipe from flaps of skin obtained from vertical cuts down the neck. To cover the gaps left by removal of these flaps, he took still other strips from Lopata's thighs. Into the windpipe opening went a valved silver tube...
...been stabbed in the heart. In the adjoining front bedroom sprawled Nina Schmale, bound at the wrists, gagged, knifed four times in the neck and strangled; Merlita Gargullo, wrists and ankles bound, dead of a 6-in.-deep thrust in the side of her neck, which pierced the trachea; and Valentina Pasion, wrists bound, knifed four times, strangled. In all, the killer inflicted 24 stab wounds. An initial examination revealed no evidence that any of the victims had been raped...