An updated approach in the management of 50 patients with foreign body inhalation is presented. Certain risk factors that lead to complications and mortality due to endoscopic extraction of foreign bodies and thus det...An updated approach in the management of 50 patients with foreign body inhalation is presented. Certain risk factors that lead to complications and mortality due to endoscopic extraction of foreign bodies and thus determine prognosis were identified. Remedial measures to reduce morbidity and mortality due to bronchoscopic removal of foreign bodies are suggested. Fifty patients of suspected foreign body inhalation presented to a Unit of the Department of ENT, Head and Neck Surgery of Government Medical College associated SMHS Hospital Srinagar, Kashmir from March 2007 to June 2017. Of these, 49 patients were subjected to rigid tube bronchoscopy for removal of the aspirated foreign bodies and one coughed out the foreign body spontaneously during admission for bronchoscopy. History of foreign body inhalation was positive in 90% of patients and remaining was mostly referred from Paediatric Units with un-resolving collapse-consolidation of the lung. Whereas plain radiography of the chest and the soft tissues of neck were the primary imaging modality used in this study to detect the inhaled foreign bodies or their effects there are reports of virtual bronchoscopy being done with a multidetector computed tomography scanner in 3D image generation from axial cuts of the internal walls of the tracheobronchial tree in the management of patients suspected with foreign body aspiration. Bronchoscopy is a difficult and potentially hazardous procedure in the infant and young child. Telescopes and telescopic forceps were used during bronchoscopy to facilitate extraction of a foreign body inhaled. The type of a foreign body, site of its enlodgement and the complications encountered during its extraction were noted. During bronchoscopy the patients were connected to an ECG monitor and a pulse oximeter. 80% of the patients with foreign body inhalation were children in the age group of 0 - 5 years. There was a definite history of choking over the foreign body in 88% of the patients leading to acute respiratory distress in 46%. Cough 展开更多
文摘An updated approach in the management of 50 patients with foreign body inhalation is presented. Certain risk factors that lead to complications and mortality due to endoscopic extraction of foreign bodies and thus determine prognosis were identified. Remedial measures to reduce morbidity and mortality due to bronchoscopic removal of foreign bodies are suggested. Fifty patients of suspected foreign body inhalation presented to a Unit of the Department of ENT, Head and Neck Surgery of Government Medical College associated SMHS Hospital Srinagar, Kashmir from March 2007 to June 2017. Of these, 49 patients were subjected to rigid tube bronchoscopy for removal of the aspirated foreign bodies and one coughed out the foreign body spontaneously during admission for bronchoscopy. History of foreign body inhalation was positive in 90% of patients and remaining was mostly referred from Paediatric Units with un-resolving collapse-consolidation of the lung. Whereas plain radiography of the chest and the soft tissues of neck were the primary imaging modality used in this study to detect the inhaled foreign bodies or their effects there are reports of virtual bronchoscopy being done with a multidetector computed tomography scanner in 3D image generation from axial cuts of the internal walls of the tracheobronchial tree in the management of patients suspected with foreign body aspiration. Bronchoscopy is a difficult and potentially hazardous procedure in the infant and young child. Telescopes and telescopic forceps were used during bronchoscopy to facilitate extraction of a foreign body inhaled. The type of a foreign body, site of its enlodgement and the complications encountered during its extraction were noted. During bronchoscopy the patients were connected to an ECG monitor and a pulse oximeter. 80% of the patients with foreign body inhalation were children in the age group of 0 - 5 years. There was a definite history of choking over the foreign body in 88% of the patients leading to acute respiratory distress in 46%. Cough
