Sharon to undergo tracheotomy
2006-01-15 17:36
Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will undergo a tracheotomy on Sunday at the Jerusalem hospital where he has spent the past 11 days in a coma.
"The prime minister's situation is still serious but stable," Yael Bossam Levy, a spokesperson for Jerusalem's Hadassah hospital, told AFP.
"This evening he will undergo a CT (brain) scan after which he will undergo a tracheotomy ... to help the process of taking him off the respiratory equipment."
The tracheotomy procedure involves inserting a tube into a patient's windpipe to allow air to circulate in the lungs.
Sharon was admitted to the Hadassah hospital on January 4 after suffering a massive brain haemorrhage.
- AFP