A day before yesterday, a medical team in the endoscopy department at Obaidullah Hospital in Ras Al-Khaimah rescued a girl from (Arab nationality), who swallowed (chicken bone) while eating an inverted meal, which resulted in suffocation and shortness of breath.
Head of Endoscopy Department at Obaidullah Hospital in Ras Al-Khaimah, Dr. Maryam Al-Khatri told Emirates Today, that the department received eight o’clock yesterday evening a girl of Arab nationality in her twenties who was referred from one of the emirate’s hospitals after she swallowed (a chicken bone) with a length of three This was what resulted in suffocation and shortness of breath.
She explained that the other hospital tried, through the ENT department, to save the girl and extract (the bone) through the use of an endoscope device, but that the arrival of the bone to the esophagus area under the throat was not possible to reach the endoscope, and pointed out that the patient was transferred to Obaidullah Hospital in the face Speed to take the necessary medical measures.
She added: "Once the girl reached the endoscopy department, she was subjected to treatment by a specialized team, and x-rays of the larynx were performed to determine the location and size of the bone, and she followed that it was extracted using the landscape naturally without the patient being exposed to any side effects.
She explained that the patient told the medical team that she was eating an (upside down) meal with her family members and was made without feeling a small bone that was in the rice spoon without being able to extract it or vomit.
She pointed out that (the bone) descended from the room until it settled in the esophagus due to its small size, adding that the arrival of the girl to the hospital in a timely manner contributed to taking it out before it reached the stomach, explaining that the reviewers should eat and chew food well and ensure that rice meals are empty of Bones of chicken and meat that are small in size and do not appear clearly during their presence in rice meals to avoid ingestion and health complications.