Research Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacodynamics
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue: 2

How to extract foreign bodies in the absence of suitable instruments. mozambican experience

1Associate Professor of Head and Neck Anatomy, Serviço de Anatomia Humana, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique.

2Dentistry last year student, Instituto Superior de Ciências e Tecnologia de Moçambique (ISCTEM), Maputo, Mozambique.

*Corresponding Author E-mail motiar786@gmail.com

Online published on 3 June, 2021.

Abstract

Foreign bodies are very common in poor countries and the lack of proper instruments for their extraction can lead to complications. The idea of this work is to share the Mozambican experience in the extraction of foreign bodies from the pharynx, nasal cavities and external auditory canal. The esophageal and airway bodies require a special equipment. We can't adapt.

Keywords

Foreign Body, ENT. Mozambique