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
An appendectomy is a surgical procedure, performed under general anesthesia, to remove the appendix. The timing of this surgery can depend on many factors, such as: 1  Whether the appendix is non-perforated or perforated (burst)  The extent of the infection.