• Masui · Sep 2007

    [Perioperative management of airway foreign bodies in 35 pediatric patients].

    • Kanako Watanabe, Kiyokazu Kagawa, Keiko Kinouchi, Yoshikazu Miyamoto, Kazuo Fukumitsu, and Seiji Kitamura.
    • Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute for Maternal & Child Health, Izumi 594-1101.
    • Masui. 2007 Sep 1; 56 (9): 1065-70.

    AbstractWe retrospectively reviewed 33 patients (35 cases) who underwent foreign body removal at our institution from 1995 through 2003. Male-female ratio was 21 : 12 and the most frequent age was one year. The most common foreign bodies (FBs) were nuts (n = 14) and plastics (n = 7). A repeater (3 cases) had mental retardation. Patients were referred to our institution with an average interval of 90 hours, and after 1.3 hospitals. All the patients were managed with general anesthesia. Direct laryngoscopy was performed to extract FBs in 11 cases suspected of having pharyngeal or laryngeal FBs. In 24 cases suspected of having tracheobronchial FBs, the trachea was intubated and a flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy was performed to locate the FBs. FBs were found in the trachea in 2 cases and in the bronchus in 18 patients and were successfully extracted by rigid bronchoscopy in 10 cases. All the patients were admitted for fear of laryngotracheal edema. There were no significant postoperative complications.

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