What happens when you mix caffeine and alcohol? Twenty students were hospitalized in New Jersey. Nine freshmen girls in central Washington got sent to the ER. Attackers in a brutal anti-gay gang crime in the Bronx reportedly forced a victim to down four cans of the stuff.
The Lithotomy position is a medical term referring to a particular position in which the patient is placed when he or she has to undergo an examination or a medical procedure of some kind. The word Lithotomy originated from the Greek words âlithosâ and âtomosâ which mean stone and cut.
A tracheotomy is a surgical procedure in which a cut or opening is made in the windpipe (trachea). The surgeon inserts a tube into the opening to bypass an obstruction, allow air to get to the lungs, or remove secretions. The term tracheostomy is sometimes used interchangeably with tracheotomy.