Surgical Care for Children with Foreign Bodies in the Airways

An analysis was made of 1355 children with a suspected foreign body of the respiratory tract (IT FB), treated in the Specialized Pediatric Surgeon Clinic of the Samarkand Medical University over the past 20 years.Of these patients, 948 patients were diagnosed and were divided into two subgroups according to the method of treatment.The first subgroup of 478 patients with FB AP, in the period from 2000 to 2009, the removal of FB was performed using rigid bronchoscopy.The second subgroup of 470 patients treated in the period from 2010 to 2019, the removal of FB was performed by video bronchoscopy.The use of video bronchoscopy contributed to a clear visualization of all departments of the AP and IT, made it possible to easily and quickly remove the latter, significantly improved the course of the post-bronchoscopy period and reduced the development of late complications.