Authors: Oguntoye Oluwatosin Oluwagbenga, Yusuf Musah, Olowoyo Paul, Aremu Shuaib Kayode, Soje Michael Osisiogu, Oguntoye Oluwafunmilayo Adenike, Raji Mustapha, Oguntade Hameed Banjo, Ariyo Olumuyiwa Elijah, Atolani Segun Alex, Talabi Olukayode Abiola, Ogunmola Toba Osiron.
Foreign body ingestion and food bolus impaction are encountered commonly in clinical practice and are a common endoscopic emergency. A wide variety of objects could be ingested which could get impacted, and the site of impaction is commonly the oesophagus but can also be the airway depending on the nature of the substance ingested, the age of the patient and the presence of a neurologic disorder. The predominant clinical features of a patient will depend on the site of impaction of the foreign body; the airway or the oesophagus. Endoscopy remains the gold standard for the diagnosis and management of foreign body ingestion of which there are different modalities and equipment types. For foreign body in the airway laryngoscopy, tracheoscopy and bronchoscopy are the modalities indicated and there are also different types of retrieval devices some of which include standard biopsy forceps, retrieval graspers, retrieval forceps and polypectomy snares. The management of foreign body ingestion cuts across different specialties including Pulmonology, Otorhinolaryngology, General surgery, Cardiothoracic surgery and Gastroenterology all of which are involved in various different endoscopic procedures and their endoscopy equipment have a lot of similarities and in certain instances they can be adapted to perform varying roles. Foreign bodies in the airway require urgent endoscopic removal because it can become rapidly life threatening with associated high morbidity and mortality, therefore the available equipment should be immediately deployed to save lives. We present a case of foreign body impaction in the upper airway (larynx) that was removed with a flexible video Gastroscope using a polypectomy snare
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