Doctors remove LED bulb from 8-month old baby girl’s bronchus
Hemanta Pradhan | TNN | Nov 8, 2018, 22:28 IST
BHUBANESWAR: Doctors at the Apollo Hospital’s ENT department in Bhubaneswar found a LED bulb in the left main bronchus of an eight-month-old baby girl and successfully removed the foreign particle from her body.
The baby girl from Brajrajnagar in Jharsuguda district had ingested the bulb into the airway of her bronchus. Her parents took her to a nearby hospital after she felt breathlessness. They were referred to a tertiary care medical college and hospital where doctors spotted a foreign body in the lungs after conducting an X-ray on her. As they could not remove the particle, they referred to a super-specialty hospital in Bhubaneswar.
The parents had decided to bring the child to Apollo Hospitals, Bhubaneswar, and they reached the emergency department at around 3.00 am on October 22. She was immediately shifted to Paediatric Intensive Care Unit. After a few blood tests, she was shifted to the operation theatre. A team of ENT doctors comprising S Gupta, S K Pradhan, and K K Jena, and Anaesthetist Jitendu Mohanty faced a lot of difficulties while removing the foreign body as the child was very small and her airway was very narrow, said hospital sources.
They could not negotiate the ventilating bronchoscope (instrument used for foreign body removal from bronchus) because of the narrow windpipe and the oxygen level of the child was going down quickly. Finally, with an optical forceps one wire of the led bulb was caught and removed slowly without any complications. The child was shifted back to PICU after the procedure where she was managed by P K Dey. She was discharged the very next day in stable conditions, said a doctor.
“Foreign bodies in ear nose and throat are common but in airway it’s rare but life threatening. Most common age group is 1- 3 years. Below 1 year of age, it is unusual to find a foreign body in the airway. But if it happens it is a medical challenge to manage these patients,” said Sanjeev Gupta, senior consultant of ENT Department of the hospital.
The baby girl from Brajrajnagar in Jharsuguda district had ingested the bulb into the airway of her bronchus. Her parents took her to a nearby hospital after she felt breathlessness. They were referred to a tertiary care medical college and hospital where doctors spotted a foreign body in the lungs after conducting an X-ray on her. As they could not remove the particle, they referred to a super-specialty hospital in Bhubaneswar.
The parents had decided to bring the child to Apollo Hospitals, Bhubaneswar, and they reached the emergency department at around 3.00 am on October 22. She was immediately shifted to Paediatric Intensive Care Unit. After a few blood tests, she was shifted to the operation theatre. A team of ENT doctors comprising S Gupta, S K Pradhan, and K K Jena, and Anaesthetist Jitendu Mohanty faced a lot of difficulties while removing the foreign body as the child was very small and her airway was very narrow, said hospital sources.
They could not negotiate the ventilating bronchoscope (instrument used for foreign body removal from bronchus) because of the narrow windpipe and the oxygen level of the child was going down quickly. Finally, with an optical forceps one wire of the led bulb was caught and removed slowly without any complications. The child was shifted back to PICU after the procedure where she was managed by P K Dey. She was discharged the very next day in stable conditions, said a doctor.
“Foreign bodies in ear nose and throat are common but in airway it’s rare but life threatening. Most common age group is 1- 3 years. Below 1 year of age, it is unusual to find a foreign body in the airway. But if it happens it is a medical challenge to manage these patients,” said Sanjeev Gupta, senior consultant of ENT Department of the hospital.
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