TY - JOUR
T1 - The "multiport airway adapter" in flexible bronchoscopy for peripheral bronchial foreign bodies in children
AU - Matsushita, Kohei
AU - Uchida, Keiichi
AU - Otake, Kohei
AU - Nagano, Yuka
AU - Koike, Yuki
AU - Inoue, Mikihiro
AU - Kusunoki, Masato
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - Many children require emergency foreign body removal by bronchoscopy. Although a flexible bronchoscope is frequently used for removal of a bronchial foreign body in children, this procedure is difficult in children with a narrow tracheal lumen, even using a thin flexible bronchoscope. This report describes the use of a multiport airway adaptor to remove a bronchial foreign body with a flexible bronchoscope. The thicker forceps etc. were passed alongside the flexible bronchoscope through the adaptor. These findings suggest that this multiport airway adaptor will be useful as an advanced tool for foreign body removal in pediatric patients.
AB - Many children require emergency foreign body removal by bronchoscopy. Although a flexible bronchoscope is frequently used for removal of a bronchial foreign body in children, this procedure is difficult in children with a narrow tracheal lumen, even using a thin flexible bronchoscope. This report describes the use of a multiport airway adaptor to remove a bronchial foreign body with a flexible bronchoscope. The thicker forceps etc. were passed alongside the flexible bronchoscope through the adaptor. These findings suggest that this multiport airway adaptor will be useful as an advanced tool for foreign body removal in pediatric patients.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijporl.2015.10.050
DO - 10.1016/j.ijporl.2015.10.050
M3 - Article
C2 - 26596686
AN - SCOPUS:84955193959
SN - 0165-5876
VL - 79
SP - 2470
EP - 2472
JO - International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
JF - International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
IS - 12
ER -