Anaesthesia Viva

Paediatric Oesophageal Foreign Body

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Clinical Stem

2022.1
You are the on-call consultant in a regional hospital. The anaesthesia registrar calls you at 22:30 hours reporting that there is a 14-month-old child in the emergency department with a foreign body in the mid-oesophagus visible on chest X-ray. There is an ENT consultant available to take the child to theatre.

Sections covered in this viva

Planning Anaesthesia for Foreign Body RemovalIV Access in Time-Pressured SituationShared Airway Management

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