[Complicated airway foreign body in a child: a case report].

Summary A 9 year-old boy suffering from cough for half a month, fever for 4 days was hospitalized. CT three-dimensional reconstruction showed that a metallic needle-like foreign body within the right main bronchial with pneumonia and atelectasis. In the next day, the boy took examination using an open-tube rigid bronchoscope under general anesthesia. For the first time, the foreign body was jammed in glottis with SpO2 and HR declining. For the second time, the operator found the foreign was not a needle but a thumbtack. Finally, the thumbtack was removed from the airway after short-term paralysis using succinylcholine.