QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Cervical collar for a tracheostomized sailor.
I am looking for a firm which can make a neck cervical collar for a tracheostomized sailor.
The collar should have a tear-off opening adjustable to the size and should also have two frontal openings: in one of the two must be positioned a small tube connected with a small oxygen bottle.
Do you know of anyone who could make something like this?
Thanks a lot.
G.N. (July 31st, 2001)

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I have spoken with our otorhinolaringologists who have been engaged with the making of a collar for a tracheostomized patient. In that case collar was manufactured by our technicians. We are now looking for collars ready on the market: I shall let you know about the findings.
A.T.

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We advise you to enquiry the following address:
LA MEDICA
via Vanzetti, 8 - MILANO
tel. 02-733068
attention Mrs. NICOLETTA
May be this firm can be of some help to the person looking for the collar.
R.C.

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We advise you to address to the firma CAMP TIELLE which sells various kinds of neck cervical collars. The patient could ask the catalogue and have the collar made by a technician of his town.
S.B.

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Unfortunately up to now I haven't received any relevant information on the matter. I don't believe, in any case, that would be easy in the future to find something which prevents from the drowning persons who have a permanent hole in their throat.
As regards myself, other problems have summed up in the meanwhile: a paralysis of left arm and hand with a movement capability of 10%.
My spirit is now, of course, not very high: I have give up to the dream of sailing.
I thank you for your assistance and I hope that the research will continue so that some others can succeed where I did not.
G.M. (November 4th, 2002)