Background There is a lack of contemporaneous data on the practices of flexible bronchoscopy in India. Aim The aim of the study was to study the prevalent practices of flexible bronchoscopy across India. Methods The "Indian Bronchoscopy Survey" was a 98-question, online survey structured into the following sections: general information, patient preparation and monitoring, sedation and topic...

We have undertaken a survey to establish current practices and differences in the use of bronchoscopes in children in European centres. A questionnaire was sent to all 220 members of the Paediatric Assembly of the European Respiratory Society (ERS). The questions concerned the following points: indications for bronchoscopy; site of bronchoscopy; type of sedation; any oxygen supplementation duri...

BackgroundTreatment of tracheobronchial disease in medically complex infants with congenital heart (CHD) is often challenging. When conservative management or surgery fails contraindicated, airway stenting can allow for advancement care weaning respiratory support.MethodsWe identified 8 cases balloon-expandable coronary bare-metal stents performed at our institution between February 2019 and Se...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study is to analyze the epidemiological, clinical, radiological and endoscopic characteristics of pediatric foreign body aspiration in Algeria. METHODS In this retrospective study, the results of 2624 children younger than 18 years admitted in our department for respiratory foreign body removal between 1989 and 2012, were presented. Most of them had an ambulat...

In a study of 100 patients undergoing rigid bronchoscopy under intravenous general anaesthesia with oxygen Venturi ventilation no major complications were observed. Minor complications included one adverse reaction to alphaxalone-alphadolone acetate (Althesin), one prolonged episode of laryngeal spasm after removal of the bronchoscope, and subsequent muscle pain attributed to suxamethonium in 3...

Impiego della videolaringoscopia per l'insegnamento e la supervisione della broncoscopia rigida in pazienti pediatrici Dear Editor, Rigid bronchoscopy is frequently used by otolaryngolo-gists to evaluate the trachea and bronchi in paediatric patients. Bronchoscopes are introduced through vocal cords under direct vision laryngoscopy 1. Poor glottic exposure leads to multiple intubation attempts ...

Pulmonary aspiration of gastric contents remains a risk in modern anaesthesia. Aspiration is considered to have occurred if any obvious nonrespiratory secretions are suctioned via a tracheal tube, there is chest x-ray evidence of new pathology after an incident and/or there are signs of new wheeze or crackles after an episode of regurgitation or vomiting. The risk factors include emergency case...

Foreign body aspiration is a leading cause of death in children 1-3 years old, although mortality is low for children who reach the hospital. Presenting symptoms of an inhaled foreign body depends on time since aspiration. Immediately after inhalation the child starts to cough, wheeze, or have laboured breathing. If the early signs are missed, the child usually presents with fever and other sig...

T his article presents our experience with bronchoscopy as a therapeutic and diagnostic tool in the management of patients with cystic fibrosis. It is well known that patients with cystic fibrosis present a wide variety of disorders in many organ systems ( Table 1 ) . Some of these disorders are related to the enzymochemical defect and some occur secondarily as a result of the pathophysiology o...