Bronchoscopic removal of aspirated foreign bodies in children

Tracheobronchial foreign bodies in children

“…Second group of authors reported positivity of bronchoscopic findings between 85 and 100% [13,[45][46][47][48][49][50][51], and third group between 60 and 70% [14,52,53], and Agostinho et al [54] (54%). Viot et al [7] and Svedstrom et al [55] reported about very low positivity of bronchoscopic findings (39.1 and 41%).…”

“…The «minor complications» (which include subglottic edema and bronchospasm and occur in 1.7-8% of children) [46,48,50], complications (pneumonia, atelectasis in 6-7.9% of children) [44,[58][59][60] and major complications (in children with delay in diagnosis in 14-64%) [38,46,61,62]. We also paid attention to the deaths of the children during the endoscopic procedures.…”

“…We also paid attention to the deaths of the children during the endoscopic procedures. In literature data the mortality was zero [16,46,50,63], below 1% in many authors [11,21,24,27,35,36,58], between 1 and 2% [9,64,65] and 11% (?) [47].…”

Tracheobronchial foreign bodies in infants

“…It is also the commonest cause of accidental death in infancy [5]. Gross published the earliest systematic study of airway foreign bodies in 1854 [6].…”

Inhaled foreign bodies in pediatric patients: Review of personal experience

“…Although it is clear that the treatment of FB inhalation is achieved in the operating room or in an endoscopy unit under general anesthesia, and by rigid bronchoscopy [15,16], the choice of anesthesiological technique (spontaneous respiration or the administration of a muscle relaxant associated with controlled respiration) is still actively discussed [10,[17][18][19]. Herein, we report our experience on FB aspiration in pediatric patients, in particularly perioperative complications correlated to type of anesthesiological agent and duration of surgical procedure were analyzed.…”