RESP - Aspirational Lung Injury

Question 1

Clinical Features of Aspirational Lung Injury (5).

Answer 1

1. Cough.
2. Stridor.
3. Dyspnoea.
4. Unilateral Wheezing (Partial Obstruction of Main/Distal Bronchi).
5. Choking Crisis.

Question 2

Investigations and Management of Aspirational Lung Injury (3).

Answer 2

1. Cough Encouragement.
2. Back Blows, Chest Thrusts (Infants) or Abdominal Thrusts (Heimlich Manoeuvre - Children).
3. Flexible Bronchoscopy (look and remove).
4. Rigid Bronchoscopy (if Flexible fails or if asphyxiated, stridor, radio-opaque object, history of foreign body aspiration).
5. Surgery.