Anesthesia for removal of inhaled foreign bodies in children

Controlled ventilation or spontaneous respiration in anesthesia for tracheobronchial foreign body removal: a meta‐analysis

“…Furthermore, it would be easier to maintain an adequate anesthetic level using a muscle relaxant . However, controlled ventilation involves a risk of ball‐valve hyperinflation and makes it more difficult to remove the FB and a risk of potentially rupturing the lung distal to the obstruction . The choice is often based on the institution's protocol and the anesthetist's training.…”

Inhaled foreign bodies in pediatric patients: Review of personal experience

“…Although it is clear that the treatment of FB inhalation is achieved in the operating room or in an endoscopy unit under general anesthesia, and by rigid bronchoscopy [15,16], the choice of anesthesiological technique (spontaneous respiration or the administration of a muscle relaxant associated with controlled respiration) is still actively discussed [10,[17][18][19]. Herein, we report our experience on FB aspiration in pediatric patients, in particularly perioperative complications correlated to type of anesthesiological agent and duration of surgical procedure were analyzed.…”

Correlative factors for the location of tracheobronchial foreign bodies in infants and children

“…This indicates that the location of the foreign body was lowly correlated to preoperative complications. Understanding of the condition and preoperative complications of children is propitious to reducing operative complications and mortality, through the intraoperative cooperation with the anesthesiologist (20).…”