Bronchoscopy is an endoscopic technique for visualizing the inside of the airways for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. A bronchoscope is inserted into the airways, usually through the nose or mouth or occasionally through a tracheostomy, allowing the practitioner to examine the airways for abnormalities such as foreign bodies, bleeding, tumors or inflammation, and specimens may be taken from inside the lungs.
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Bronchoscopy is an endoscopic technique of visualizing the inside of the airways for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
2. Bronchoscopy (Wikipedia)
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The German laryngologist Gustav Killian is attributed with performing the first bronchoscopy in 1897.
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Who performed the first bronchoscopy, and how was it done?
Gustav Killian in 1897, with a rigid scope, removing a pork bone.
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.
What is the difference between rigid and flexible bronchoscopy?
Rigid scopes are used mainly for therapy under general anesthesia; flexible scopes are the usual choice under moderate sedation.
A rigid bronchoscope is a hollow metal tube whose larger lumen allows therapeutic approaches such as electrocautery to help control bleeding, and rigid bronchoscopy is performed under general anesthesia. A flexible bronchoscope is longer and thinner and contains a fiberoptic system. Flexible bronchoscopy causes less discomfort than rigid bronchoscopy, can be performed easily and safely under moderate sedation, and is the technique of choice nowadays for most bronchoscopic procedures. Shigeto Ikeda invented the flexible bronchoscope in 1966.
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