The crash of Air India Flight 171 continues to generate significant questions about aviation safety oversight in India.

BENGALURU: A 55-year-old woman who unknowingly inhaled a sharp metallic cloth pin while shopping was successfully treated, ...

KMC Hospital Mangalore has achieved a significant medical milestone by successfully performing flexible bronchoscopy to treat ...

New data suggest mid/distal esophageal coin retention in kids often resolves without intervention — prompting reconsideration ...

The body keeps trying to clear that blockage, resulting in background inflammation that accumulates to cause damage. Scientists don’t fully understand what triggers the initial inflammation in ...

A 64-year-old man presented with a 10-cm metal spoon handle retained in his airway for 40 years—a rare case of chronic foreign body aspiration in an adult. The condition was further complicated by ...

Women and Boy Scouts could adequately ventilate curarized subjects of twice their own body weight with the mouth-to-airway method. All who used the airway stated that it made mouth-to-mouth ...

"The case was unique because the hard foreign body had fragmented and remained in the airway for such an extended period," Dr Gupta explained. Following the procedure, the child was monitored in ...

A foreign body in the larynx is rare. If a foreign body of any appreciable size lodges in the larynx, the airway is obstructed and the patient dies promptly, before help can be given. The object ...

Background: Foreign body airway obstruction (FBAO) represents a major public health challenge in developed countries with aging populations. We previously reported that bystander FBAO interventions ...