In simple terms, a tracheostomy is a surgical procedure performed in emergency or specific clinical settings to establish an artificial airway. Its core operation is making an incision in a defined area of the anterior tracheal wall at the neck, thereby creating a direct opening into the airway. The artificial channel formed by the procedure is called the stoma (sometimes also referred to as the tracheal opening or breathing hole), which serves as a new pathway for air to flow in and out of the lungs.

Maintaining unobstructed breathing is vital to sustaining life, and in many medical scenarios, tracheostomy tubes take on this crucial responsibility. This precisely designed conduit, serving as a bridge between the patient’s external environment and the lower airway, is not only standard medical equipment in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) but is also increasingly used in the complex context of long-term home care. Its stable placement establishes an artificial airway, directly connecting the patient’s respiratory function to life-support systems. For both frontline medical staff directly caring for patients and service providers or distribution partners responsible for equipment supply, a thorough understanding of the core features of tracheostomy tubes is essential.

In the critical moments of an emergency, when airway obstruction or sudden respiratory failure occurs, the interruption of oxygen supply leaves life hanging by a thread. Every second calls for urgent intervention, and the endotracheal tube becomes a core lifesaving measure. It can immediately restore the ventilation pathway, making the difference between life and death. This intervention not only rescues patients on the edge of emergency situations but also extends to anesthetic support in surgical operations, airway management in intensive care units, and routine procedures in emergency departments. In clinical practice, it plays a fundamental and indispensable role.

Endotracheal tube is an urgent and crucial medical procedure in which physicians carefully insert a specially designed, semi-rigid, sterile tube through the patient’s mouth or nose into the trachea.

An Arterial catheter set is a fine, flexible short tube, carefully inserted into a patient’s artery by medical professionals. Its core function is to create a secure channel that directly connects the core of the human circulatory system—the arterial vessels—with the outside of the body.