Intraoperative airway foreign body migration in a child.
We report successful anaesthetic management of a foreign body in the airway, which migrated intraoperatively from one bronchus to the other causing life-threatening hypoxaemia.
Sharma
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Department of Anaesthesiology, LRS Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi, India.
Kumar
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Kumar
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D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000379:methods; D001980:Bronchi / Q000601:surgery; D001999:Bronchoscopy / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D013908:Thoracotomy / Q000379:methods*