A Case of Bronchial Foreign Body Removal During Trans-Laryngeal Mask Airway Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy.

Suhr, Ji Won; Kim, Jong Yul; Park, Kyu Ho; Kang, Jun Goo; Choi, Jin

doi:1997.44.6.1433

Tuberc Respir Dis > Volume 44(6); 1997 > Article

Case Report

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1997;44(6):1433-1439.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1997.44.6.1433 Published online December 1, 1997.

A Case of Bronchial Foreign Body Removal During Trans-Laryngeal Mask Airway Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy.

Ji Won Suhr, Jong Yul Kim, Kyu Ho Park, Jun Goo Kang, Jin Choi

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Daejeon st. Mary`s Hospital, College of Medicine, Catholic University, Daejeon, Korea.
²Department of Anesthesiology, Daejeon st. Mary`s Hospital, College of Medicine, Catholic University, Daejeon, Korea.
³Department of Pediatrics, Daejeon st. Mary`s Hospital, College of Medicine, Catholic University, Daejeon, Korea.

Abstract

Bronchial foreign body is not a rare disease in children and it is urgently necessary to remove this foreign body from the airway to relive life or to prevent further damages and complications. But the innate small size of airways in infants makes it difficult to access by interventional methods such as intubation or bronchoscopy and etc. Laryngeal mask airway is a new way of method of airway management which is relatively recently introduced into medical practice. It gives way to access to airways without reducing the size of airway or incresing airway pressure during procedure through it and have many other advantages compared to the previous traditional endotracheal intubation, especially in infants. We successfully removed a case of bronchial foreign body, peanut, via laryngeal mask airway during fiberoptic bronchoscopy and by this method we can avoid the unnecessary tracheostomy in this 1 year old infant.

Key Words: Bronchial foreign body, Laryngeal mask airway, Bronchoscopy