Emergency Unit - Hospital 199 received a 69-year-old male patient, residing in Da Nang City, who was admitted to the hospital in a state of choking pain in the neck area. After receiving the treatment, emergency doctors ordered a film of the soft-ray neck due to suspicion of foreign objects in the esophagus.
Quick consultation with doctors at the Endoscopy - Diagnosis Center, and at the same time transfer the patient to the Center for endoscopy of the large stomach. Here, the doctor discovered a large bone piece measuring 2x4cm attached to the lower limb of the esophagus, mobile. After 20 minutes, the doctors performed an emergency endoscopy to safely remove the foreign object from the patient's digestive tract.
Patient L.H said: The cause of the strange object snoring was eating Hue pig's vermicelli and accidentally swallowing a large piece of bone, causing a problem in the neck. Feeling pain, a lot of neck pain, I went to the hospital for a check-up and was successfully removed by an endoscopist.
Dr. Do Van Ta - Head of the Emergency Unit, Hospital 199 (Ministry of Public Security) recommends: "Snooking foreign objects is very common, but very dangerous, and can lead to complications such as unable to eat, carelessness in the back of the throat, carelessness, absorption of absorption holes, blood vessel damage... Therefore, when suspecting of being suffocated or swallowing foreign objects, patients should immediately go to the nearest medical facility for timely examination and intervention".
