The child went to the hospital to fix his teeth and found a piece of chopstick in his neck

On Monday afternoon, my colleague Xiao Wang was conducting pre-anesthesia visits to patients who were scheduled for surgery the next day.

Suddenly, she received a call from the director, who told her that an additional operation had been scheduled for the next day. The patient was a child who was currently in the dental department, and asked her to go and check on the situation.

After hanging up the phone, she was very puzzled: The dentistry hasn't performed an operation in 800 years. Could it be that the tooth is difficult to extract and general anesthesia is required?

In a blink of an eye, she arrived at the dentistry.

To be honest, she had hardly ever been to a dentist's office, so it took her a long time to find the door.

The dentist said: This is a patient with a horizontal root. In order to extract the tooth more safely, he took a film. However, when taking the film, he found something unexpected: there was a piece of chopstick on the child's neck, just behind the mouth.

After confirming that it was not caused by the collar, etc., I asked the child how it happened. The child replied: I can't remember clearly, but I vaguely remember it happened when I was a child. Once, he was eating and ran with chopsticks in his mouth and fell. He only remembered that he felt a little pain and didn't pay attention to where the half chopstick went.

When the parents were questioned, they were even more clueless. Seeing the child hesitating, the mother even wanted to slap her son.

The child's father told me that the child's mother was always strict and would beat the child at any time. It is also possible that the child did not dare to speak about the accident at the time and forgot about it over time.

Knowing this, there is no point in complaining. The most urgent thing is to remove the chopstick as soon as possible.

During the anesthesia visit, my colleague Xiao Wang used a flashlight to look at the child's mouth. On the one hand, he wanted to see if the anesthesia intubation would have any impact; on the other hand, he was curious about how the chopsticks were inserted.

After seeing that there seemed to be nothing abnormal about the posterior pharyngeal wall in the mouth, Xiao Wang could only shake his head in disbelief.

After learning that the operation would be performed by an ENT doctor, Xiao Wang called the doctor to find out how the operation would be performed so as to develop an intubation plan.

The next day, the child was successfully on the operating table.

In order to avoid the influence of the catheter after nasal intubation on the surgical operation, oral intubation was chosen for this intubation.

Although oral intubation also increased the difficulty of the operation, the ENT doctor still overcame the difficulties and half an hour later, the half chopstick was removed.

It may seem like an ordinary minor operation, but in fact our anesthesiology department has made preparations for rescue in case of heavy bleeding.

After the operation, we sent the child to the intensive care unit for delayed extubation.

At the door, we saw the parents who were full of regret.

At that time, I really wanted to criticize them, but we also understood that they must be very regretful and upset, so I just glared at them.

Children have a very low awareness of risks, so we should not only educate them to stay away from risks, but also inform them of dangerous actions in daily life. For example, don't run around with chopsticks in your mouth while eating.

This time, the child was lucky that the chopsticks did not hurt any important parts. If it had, how would he regret it?