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Oily solutions be instilled at will into the trachea. In the Bronchoscopic Clinic<br />
many children have been kept alive<br />
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for days, and their lives finally saved by aspiration of thick, tough, sometimes clotted and crusted secretions,<br />
with the aspirating tube (Fig. 10). It is better in these cases<br />
not to pass the bronchoscope repeatedly. If, however, evidences of obstruction remain, after<br />
aspiration, it is necessary to see the nature<br />
of the obstruction and relieve it by removal, dilatation, or bronchial intubation<br />
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as the case may require. It is all a matter of "plumbing" i.e., clearing out the "pipes," and maintaining a patulous airway. _Tracheobronchial Diphtheria_.--Urgent dyspnea in diphtheria when no membrane and<br />
but slight lessening of the laryngeal airway is seen, calls for<br />
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bronchoscopy. Many lives have been saved by the bronchoscopic removal of membrane obstructing the trachea or bronchi. In the early stages, pulpy masses looking like "mother" of vinegar <img src="cid:36c99fee219260d343i4IzYZWzG4mZM"> are very obstructive.<br />
Later casts of membrane may simulate foreign bodies.<br />
The local application of diphtheria antitoxin to the<br />
trachea and bronc
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