REGIONAL VARIATION AND RESULTS OF THE NATURE OF FOREIGN BODY ASPIRATIONS IN SUBTROPICAL REGION

Year 2020, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 11 - 14, 10.09.2020

Hüseyin Fatih Sezer , Hakan Dayanır

Abstract

Aim:  Foreign body
aspirations are a serious respiratory illness that can threaten life,
particularly in childhood, in the first three years of life. We aimed to
compare the qualitative changes and their results of the asphyxiated foreign
bodies of the first five-year-old children we encountered in the tropical
region with literature.
Material and Method:  In Nyala Sudan Turkey Education and Research Hospital, 11 patients in the
range of 0-5 years between the dates of 04/11/2018 and 05/30/2018 with history
of foreign body aspiration was accepted after a physical examination and
radiological imaging with a preliminary diagnosis.All patients underwent rigid
bronchoscopy under general anesthesia, foreign bodies detected were removed by
using alligator forceps with no significant complication. 
Results: 
The youngest patient was 9 months old while the oldest was 5 years old
and the average age was 2.43. Foreign bodies were removed by rigid bronchoscopy
in 5 (45.45%) patients from the right main bronchus, 2 (18.18%) in the left
main bronchus and 4 (36,36%) in the trachea. Nine (81,81%) of the extracted
foreign bodies were organic (bread, peanut, papaya, grasshopper, mango) and 2
(18,18%) were inorganic (stone, battery).
Conclusion: 
In advanced countries, it is easy to reach parents and raise awareness
about the subject, but this is a difficult situation in regions where
socioeconomic level is low, communication and economical problems are
experienced. Foreign body aspirations may differ in the subtropic belt due to
many challanging conditions, but there is no difference in the complications
that can be encounteredat the end.

Keywords

Foreign body aspiration, Child, rigid bronchoscopy

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