Eventually, the patient was wheeled into the emergency of Artemis Hospital, Gurgaon. Upon arrival at the hospital’s emergency room, he had to undergo a lifesaving procedure called tracheostomy for creating an artificial passage to breathe from the neck. A hole was surgically opened in the neck up to the trachea. However, the treatment was ineffective as the kebab was stuck below the artificial passage.
The routine ENT instruments were inadequate due to the large size and critical nature of the obstruction. Keeping the patient alive with minimum oxygen levels in the body proved to be a huge challenge for the surgeons and anaesthetist. They finally resorted to an out-of-the-box technique, using an abdominal laparoscopic grasper (used in gall bladder removal surgery) to remove the kebab from the windpipe. The unique technique turned out to be successful and effective as compared to the conventional method.
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| Artemis Hospital Gurgaon |
The routine ENT instruments were inadequate due to the large size and critical nature of the obstruction. Keeping the patient alive with minimum oxygen levels in the body proved to be a huge challenge for the surgeons and anaesthetist. They finally resorted to an out-of-the-box technique, using an abdominal laparoscopic grasper (used in gall bladder removal surgery) to remove the kebab from the windpipe. The unique technique turned out to be successful and effective as compared to the conventional method.
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