Title: Tracheobronchial Foreign Body Aspiration: Save My Child
Authors: Dr Priyanka Bansal, Dr Jyoti Sharma, Dr Nidhi, Dr Soumya Saxena
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v6i4.132
Abstract
Introduction
Tracheobronchial aspiration of foreign body has always been a challenging task both for the surgeon as well as the anesthetist. Considering its consequences of asphyxiation, it is an emergency situation that needs close communication, cooperation as well as expertise of the anesthetist and surgeon.
More common among children younger than three years, it becomes more audacious to manage the airway, with simultaneous sharing of the surgical field with surgeon. A clinical trial of wheezing coughing and unilateral breath sounds usually confirms the diagnosis for presence of foreign body. We present a case of one and a half year old child, with history of ingestion of an unknown object. Similarly a few cases of other foreign body aspiration like peanut, battery cell and even wrapper of candy have come to our emergency OT, which were managed successfully
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