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
Colostomy-An abdominal opening from any part of the large intestine (colon), made because part of the colon has been removed or must be bypassed. The most common type is a sigmoid colostomy, where only the rectum has been removed or must be bypassed, and the stoma is usually on the lower-left abdomen.n ileostomy stoma is usually on the lower-right abdomen. Its output has passed through all or most of the small intestine, but none of the large intestine; consistency of this output may vary from very liquid to a semi-solid paste. Ileostomies are never managed with irrigation.