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TreatmentCategory: ESOPHAGOSCOPY FOR FOREIGN BODY Source: A Manual Of Peroral Endoscopy And Laryngeal Surgery It is a mistake to try to force a foreign body into the stomach with the stomach tube or bougie. Sounding the esophagus with bougies to determine the level of the obstruction, or to palpate the nature of the foreign body, is unnecessary and dangerous. Esophagoscopy should not be done without a previous roentgenographic and fluoroscopic examination of the chest and esophagus, except for urgent reasons. The level of the stenosis, and usually the nature of the foreign body, can thus be decided. Blind instrumentation is dangerous, and in view of the safety and success of esophagoscopy, reprehensible. If for any reason removal should be delayed, bismuth sub-nitrate, gramme 0.6, should be given dry on the tongue every four hours. It will adhere to the denuded surfaces. The addition of calomel, gramme 0.003, for a few doses will increase the antiseptic action. Should swallowing be painful, gramme 0.2 of orthoform or anesthesin will be helpful. Emetics are inefficient and dangerous. Holding the patient up by the heels is rarely, if ever, successful if the foreign body is in the esophagus. In the reported cases the intruder was probably in the pharynx. External esophagotomy for the removal of foreign bodies is unjustifiable until esophagoscopy has failed in the hands of at least two skillful esophagoscopists. It has been the observation in the Bronchoscopic Clinic that every foreign body that has gone down through the mouth into the esophagus can be brought back the same way, unless it has already perforated the esophageal wall, in which event it is no longer a case of foreign body in the esophagus. The mortality of external esophagotomy for foreign bodies is from twenty to forty-two per cent, while that of esophagoscopy is less than two per cent, if the foreign body has not already set up a serious complication before the esophagoscopy. Furthermore, external esophagotomy can be successful only with objects lodged in the cervical esophagus and, moreover, it has happened that after the esophagus has been opened, the foreign body could not be found because of dislodgement and passage downward during the relaxation of the general anesthesia. Should this occur during esophagoscopy, the foreign body can be followed with the esophagoscope, and even if it is not overtaken and removed, no risk has been incurred. Esophagoscopy is the one method of removal worthy of serious consideration. Should it repeatedly fail in the hands of two skillful endoscopists, which will be very rarely, if ever, then external operation is to be considered in cervically lodged foreign bodies. Next: Esophagoscopy For Foreign Body Previous: Prognosis
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