Artificial respiration can save a life whenever breathing has stopped but heartbeat has not, as in near-drowning, electric shock, choking, gas poisoning, drug poisoning, injury to the chest, or suffocation from other causes. It is also administered along with other procedures in cases of cardiac arrest.
-stomy. a combining form used in the names of surgical operations that involve the establishment of an artificial opening into or between the part or parts specified by the initial element: colostomy. -stomia, derivative of stoma stÃ³ma. Mouth-see, -stome y ]. 3
A colostomy is a surgical procedure in which an opening (stoma) is formed by drawing the healthy end of the large intestine or colon through an incision in the anterior abdominal wall and suturing it into place. End colostomy: A stoma is created from one end of the bowel. 2  The other portion of the bowel is either removed or sewn shut (Hartmann's procedure). 3  Double barrel colostomy: The bowel is severed and both ends are brought out onto the abdomen.