Open AccessBronchoscopic airway foreign body extraction without using optical forceps
Author(s) -
Ravi P. Kanojia,
Shalini Hegde,
U. Bahadur,
Monika Bawa,
Ram Samujh
Publication year - 2018
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_85_17
Subject(s) - medicine , forceps , airway , foreign body , flexible bronchoscopy , bronchoscopy , surgery , rigid bronchoscopy
Airway foreign body (FB) is a very common pediatric surgical emergency. On certain difficult occasions, the extraction of FB with optical forceps (OFs) is difficult. These conditions create a life-threatening scenario. We present some of the alternative methods of FB extraction for these situations.
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