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 ileostomy (also known as a small intestine stoma)= an artificial opening of the small intestine (ileum). An ileostomy is formed when the large intestine (and possibly the rectum) no longer function or have been removed. The lower end of the small intestine is then pulled through and stitched to the abdomen.ccording to the medical dictionary, a stoma is an unnatural artificial opening that binds a body cavity with the outside world, and is the result of illness or an operation. You can therefore imagine that there are many sorts of stomas.