PGI doctors remove screw from 4-year-old

Chandigarh, March 2

A team of doctors of the PGI here retrieved a piece of almond and a metallic screw from two toddlers.

A two-year-old boy was referred to the paediatric emergency on February 22 from Panipat with a sudden onset of coughing and difficulty in breathing after eating almonds five days ago. He was immediately taken up for rigid bronchoscopy under general anaesthesia where an endoscope is passed into the airway and the foreign body (almond piece) was retrieved from the left bronchus (windpipe).

Prof Ram Samujh, Head of Department of Paediatric Surgery, PGI, and his team of Dr Nitin J Peters, Dr Manasa Reddy and Dr Amit K Rai performed the procedure.

Anaesthesia was administered by Dr Anudeep Jafra and her team. Another four-year-old boy was referred the next day with a screw in the right main bronchus, which, too, was retrieved using the same procedure by Dr Nitin J Peters, Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatric Surgery. — TNS