Flexible Bronchoscopy as a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Method in Patients with Tracheobronchial Foreign Body

Marcelo Fouad Rabahi, Luísa Oliveira de Paiva, Mariana Almeida de Castro, Orlando Roberto da Silva Neto

Medical Clinic Department, Medical School, Federal University of Goias, Goiania (GO), Brasil.
Medicine School, Federal University of Goias, Goiania (GO), Brasil.

DOI: 10.4236/ijcm.2014.512096                

Abstract

Objective: To analyze bronchoscopy as a diagnostic and therapeutic method in patients with tracheobronchial foreign body. Methods: We analyzed reports of flexible bronchoscopy with diagnose of tracheobronchial foreign body performed from 2003 to 2013 in São Salvador Hospital, in Goiania, capital of Goiás. The analysis was based on: sex and age of the patients, airways and foreign body characteristics, foreign body localization, success rate and rate of bleeding. We calculated the frequencies after analyzing the data. Results: We analyzed 26 reports of the studied period and found that 57.7% of the patients were male with median age of 58.83 years old (+—13.79). The airways characteristics were normal in most of the cases. Sputum wasn’t found in 57.69% of the cases. Foreign bodies were located in right bronchus in 88.46% of the cases, and the extraction of them was successful in 80.76% of the cases. The absence of bleeding was reported in 96.15% of the cases. Conclusions: Flexible bronchoscopy is a notably successful method in management of tracheobronchial foreign bodies. Airways characteristics aren’t good indicatives of FB’s presence, once they are normal in most of the times.

Keywords

Flexible Bronchoscopy, Foreign Bodies, Airway Management

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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