A Novel Approach to Tracheostomal and Tracheal Stenosis: Dilatation Under Jet Ventilation with Inflated Foley Catheter—Two Cases

Tracheostomal stenosis is a troublesome and distressing complication in laryngectomy. There are numerous techniques that describe dilatation of tracheostoma which are mostly performed under general anesthesia with the intermittent apnea technique. We report an alternative dilatation method using a Foley catheter for laryngectomee with stomal stenosis. One case was performed under high-frequency jet ventilation and the other case was carried out with a conventional anesthesia machine. The Foley catheter is used as a conduit for ventilation and the balloon on the Foley catheter was used as a dilatator.