title: [Perioperative management of bilateral bronchial foreign bodies in infants].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the perioperative management of bilateral bronchial foreign bodies in infants to improve the cure rate in the children.
  
  
  METHODS
  The medical charts of 45 infants with bilateral bronchial foreign bodies were reviewed. Clinical features and key points to surgery as well as post-operative care were analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All foreign bodies were removed with rigid bronchoscopy under general anesthesia, and 44 of 45 infants were cured with assistance of anti-infective treatments within 3-5 days and one with acute laryngitis and bronchitis was cured through 10-day anti-infective treatment with vancomycin.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Removal of foreign body by rigid bronchoscopy under general anesthesia is a preferred method to treat bilateral bronchial foreign bodies in infants, to whom early diagnosis, early treatment and postoperative careful care are keys to get a good outcome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou 450053, China.
authors.forename: Hongbo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou 450053, China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou 450053, China. Email:rhbent@126.com.
authors.forename: Fugen
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Han
mesh_terms: D000768:Anesthesia, General; D001980:Bronchi / Q000601:surgery*; D001991:Bronchitis; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D059035:Perioperative Period; D014132:Trachea