Dubai: Doctors save boy’s life who swallowed large pin
Date
1/16/2023 7:45:00 AM
(MENAFN) Doctors in Dubai have saved an 18-month-old child's life after they pulled out a large pin that was lodged for weeks in a dangerous airway.
A team at Zulekha Hospital found the rusty 3.5cm pin in Dewan Ahmad's left main bronchus, a very important airway to the lung, after a chest X-ray.
The doctors took out the pin with a 30-minute surgery called a bronchoscopy.
“It was a life-threatening situation,” specialist thoracic surgeon Dr Khaldoon Dakka informed The National.
“For a baby, his trachea is only maybe 4cm and this pin took up most of the space so he could not breathe.
“The constant irritation when the tip touched the airway caused him to cough. It could have been catastrophic.
“If the pin had gone undetected longer it could have pierced through the wall, damaged the lung, heart and blood vessels.”
The child swallowed the pin about two weeks before being sent to hospital on December 30.
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