Abstract
The authors reported a method of resuscitation used in a 2-year-old child who suffered from a sudden obstruction of the airway at the subglottic space due to a foreign body, a peanut.
The patient had been seen at different medical institutions because of repeated pneumonia without the knowledge that the patient had a foreign body in the bronchus.
The parent of the patient seeked a laryngological examination and during the examination patient suddenly developed sever dyspnea due to a complete obstruction of the subglottic space by the foreign body. One of the authors blew forcedly his expiration into the mouth of the patient with the nostrils obstructed as in the mouth to mouth breathing.
The foreign body was successfully slipped from the subglottic space and dropped into one of the bronchi when the dyspnea disappeared and the patient was resuscitated.
The authors proposed that this was a very useful method among other procedures because of simplicity and less chance for complication.
The peanut was successfully removed at a later day under general anesthesia.
