bronchoscopy
Sign in to saveBronchoscopy is an endoscopic technique of visualizing the inside of the airways for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. An instrument (bronchoscope) is inserted into the airways, usually through the nose or mouth, or occasionally through a tracheostomy. This allows the practitioner to examine the patient's airways for abnormalities such as foreign bodies, bleeding, tumors, or inflammation. Specimens may be taken from inside the lungs. The construction of bronchoscopes ranges from rigid metal tubes with attached lighting devices to flexible optical fiber instruments with realtime video equipm
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- Bronchoscopy
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- A physician performing bronchoscopy.
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- D001999
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Research
44,006 papers- Pediatric bronchoscopy.Pediatric pulmonology · 2001
- Bronchoscopy in the emergency department.The American journal of emergency medicine · 2022
- Bronchoscopy--how and when?Paediatric respiratory reviews · 2002
- Bronchoscopy simulation: a brief review.Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice · 2009
- Avoiding unnecessary bronchoscopy in children with suspected foreign body aspiration using computed tomography.Journal of pediatric surgery · 2020
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- History
- Types
- Rigid
- Flexible (fiberoptic)
- Indications
- Diagnostic
- Therapeutic
- Procedure
- Recovery
- Bronchoscopy in critical care
- Diagnostic indications
- Therapeutic indications
- Complications and risks
- See also
- References
- External links
Bronchoscopy is an endoscopic technique of visualizing the inside of the airways for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. An instrument (bronchoscope) is inserted into the airways, usually through the nose or mouth, or occasionally through a tracheostomy. This allows the practitioner to examine the patient's airways for abnormalities such as foreign bodies, bleeding, tumors, or inflammation. Specimens may be taken from inside the lungs. The construction of bronchoscopes ranges from rigid metal tubes with attached lighting devices to flexible optical fiber instruments with realtime video equipment.
==History== The German laryngologist Gustav Killian is attributed with performing the first bronchoscopy in 1897. Killian used a rigid bronchoscope to remove a pork bone. The procedure was done in an awake patient using topical cocaine as a local anesthetic. From this time until the 1970s, rigid bronchoscopes were used exclusively.