ENT doctors at the Apollo Hospitals here successfully removed a LED bulb in the left main bronchus of an eight-month-old girl.
The girl from B rajrajnagar had recently swallowed the foreign body and consequently developed cough and difficulty in breathing. She was first taken to a nearby hospital and then to a tertiary care medical college and hospital. An X-ray was done and a foreign body in her lungs.
But the parents brought the child to the Apollo Hospitals. Doctors found that the child was medically stable but she was irritable. After going through the reports and examining the patient, the doctors found the LED bulb in her left main bronchus.
The child was immediately shifted to Paediatric Intensive Care Unit. After few blood tests she was shifted to the operation theatre. A team of ENT doctors comprising Dr S Gupta, Dr S K Pradhan and Dr K K Jena and Anaesthetist Dr Jitendu Mohanty faced lot of difficulties while removing the foreign body as the child was very small and her airway was very narrow. Finally, with an optical forceps, one wire of the bulb was caught and removed slowly without any complications. The child was shifted back to PICU. She improved gradually and was discharged the very next day in stable conditions.