Abstract
Between 1977 and 1986, 15 cases of tracheobronchial foreign bodies in infants and children were treated. The ages ranged from 6 months to 2 years and 5 months. The most frequent foreign body was peanuts (8 cases). The location of foreign bodies was mostly in the right main bronchus (8 cases). The most common chief complaints were stridor and cough.
For the management of respiration, ventilating bronchoscopy was used in 6 cases, tracheotomy in 3, high-frequency positive pressure breathing in 2 and spontaneous respiration in 9. Some of the methods overlapped. We recommend combined use of modified-neuroleptanesthesia and topical anesthesia under spontaneous respiration for removal of the tracheobronchial foreign body in infants and children.
