ALLMedicine™ Foreign Body Aspiration Center

Sep 15th, 2020 - We present the case of an eight year old boy who presented with foreign body aspiration during the COVID-19 pandemic. The patient was taken the operating room for rigid bronchoscopy and foreign body removal. The details of the operation, steps tak...

Sep 13th, 2020 - Foreign body aspiration (FBA) is a rare, but potentially fatal condition frequently seen in the emergency department. Bronchoscopy plays a major role in its diagnosis and treatment. In patients with laryngectomy, the strategies for airway maintena...

Aug 16th, 2020 - We sought to determine the time course of clinical and histologic differences between aspirated inorganic and organic foreign bodies. In-vivo METHODS: Twenty Sinclair miniature swine (Sus scrofa domesticus) were divided into two groups-inorganic o...

Jul 24th, 2020 - Flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy is a rapid, cost effective and safe procedure. To analyze demographic information and endoscopic findings in adult patients with airway foreign body aspiration and its removal. Fifty-seven adults (40 males, 17 fema...

Jul 23rd, 2020 - Pill aspiration depicts an unusual type of foreign body aspiration necessitating a discrete diagnostic and therapeutic approach.1 Some pills may remain intact in the endobronchial tree for many years without causing much harm, whereas others may d...

Sep 15th, 2020 - We present the case of an eight year old boy who presented with foreign body aspiration during the COVID-19 pandemic. The patient was taken the operating room for rigid bronchoscopy and foreign body removal. The details of the operation, steps tak...

Sep 13th, 2020 - Foreign body aspiration (FBA) is a rare, but potentially fatal condition frequently seen in the emergency department. Bronchoscopy plays a major role in its diagnosis and treatment. In patients with laryngectomy, the strategies for airway maintena...

Aug 16th, 2020 - We sought to determine the time course of clinical and histologic differences between aspirated inorganic and organic foreign bodies. In-vivo METHODS: Twenty Sinclair miniature swine (Sus scrofa domesticus) were divided into two groups-inorganic o...

Jul 24th, 2020 - Flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy is a rapid, cost effective and safe procedure. To analyze demographic information and endoscopic findings in adult patients with airway foreign body aspiration and its removal. Fifty-seven adults (40 males, 17 fema...

Jul 23rd, 2020 - Pill aspiration depicts an unusual type of foreign body aspiration necessitating a discrete diagnostic and therapeutic approach.1 Some pills may remain intact in the endobronchial tree for many years without causing much harm, whereas others may d...

Oct 1st, 2015 - Case Conclusion The infant in this case was a full-term, healthy male, older than 1 month of age, with no significant findings on physical examination. He had never had a prior ALTE.

Dec 7th, 2011 - Dr. Marianne Gausche-Hill The guidelines now emphasize the use of capnography to monitor end-tidal CO2 to confirm endotracheal tube placement and assess the adequacy of CPR.