Open AccessFogarty catheter: An indispensable tool to complement the ingenuity of the endoscopist for extraction of airway “foreign body with a hole”
Author(s) -
Prabudh Goel,
Ruchira Nandan,
Minu Bajpai,
Deepika Yadav
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of indian association of pediatric surgeons
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1998-3891
pISSN - 0971-9261
DOI - 10.4103/jiaps.jiaps_245_20
Subject(s) - medicine , forceps , foreign body , airway , bronchus , right main bronchus , surgery , lung , respiratory disease
The extraction of smooth spherical objects is challenging as they are difficult to grasp within the jaws of the forceps and tend to slip distally.