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Home / Health News / 69 year-old-man chokes on a six inch seekh kebab!

69 year-old-man chokes on a six inch seekh kebab!

Who knew seekh kebab could be so dangerous.

By: Editorial Team   | | Updated: May 11, 2017 2:26 pm
Tags: ENT  Surgery  
Photograph of foreign body

In an unexpected turn of events, a 69 year old man choked on a six inch seekh kebab! This was a near death situation as he was rushed into medical emergency at Artemis Hospital. He was unable to speak or breathe. There was absolutely no air entry in the lungs and he was barely maintaining oxygen levels in the body. Also Read - New test can eliminate need for surgery to diagnose ovarian cancer

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The doctors performed a lifesaving procedure called tracheostomy to give artificial passage to breathe from the neck. Tracheostomy also proved inadequate as the large kebab was found to be obstructing below the artificial passage. This posed a huge challenge for surgeons and anesthetist to keep him alive even as routine ENT instruments were of limited use due to the large nature of such a block. An abdominal laparoscopic grasper (used in gall bladder removal surgery) was used to free the seekh kebab from trachea (wind pipe). Read more about New surgery that implants tiny coils into the lungs can improve breathing in patients with lung disease Also Read - Kidney cancer: All you need to know about the treatment options

Smaller foreign bodies can sometimes be expelled out by exerting pressure on the chest (heimlichs maneuver ) but this case called for no other option but endoscopic removal. “No doubt kebab is a food worth dying for. But I never anticipated it this way, exclaimed Dr Shashidhar Tatavarthy- Sr. Consultant-ENT (Surgery), Artemis Hospitals after the patient s complete recovery.

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Published : May 11, 2017 1:58 pm | Updated:May 11, 2017 2:26 pm
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