Does childhood pneumonia require bronchoscopy?

Does childhood pneumonia require bronchoscopy?

Bronchoscopy is a method of checking and diagnosing whether there is a foreign body in the bronchus. It can find the cause of the disease, and then diagnose and treat it. If there is a foreign body, it can be removed. Bronchoscopy can also be used for lung irrigation. If there is an obvious lung infection, infusion therapy can be performed. When drug treatment is not effective, lung irrigation can be performed, which is a very beneficial method for treating pneumonia.

1. If necessary,

As far as bronchoscopy is concerned, the most important thing is to check and diagnose whether there is a bronchial foreign body, and the foreign body can be removed during the examination. As far as bronchoscopy is concerned, lung lavage can also be performed. When there is obvious lung infection, infusion therapy can be used. When drug treatment is not effective, lung irrigation can be considered, which is more conducive to the treatment of pneumonia. Generally speaking, pneumonia can be improved during infusion therapy.

2. Bronchoscopy can find the cause of the disease

Bronchoscopy can be used to examine the cause, diagnose and treat diseases, and it is widely used in clinical practice and safer. When children have unknown pneumonia, airway obstruction and airway foreign bodies can be diagnosed by bronchoscopy.

3. It can also be treated with surgery

Bronchoscopy can also be used to remove diseased organs and local diseased tissues, providing the most favorable treatment plan for disease diagnosis. Bronchoscopy is a creative operation technique with certain risks, such as foreign bodies irritating the throat causing laryngeal spasm, surgical bleeding, etc. Children's conditions change rapidly and are prone to surgical risks, so anesthesia requirements are very high. Operators should master the operation techniques proficiently. Only in this way can it be safe and reliable, and the effect is better.

The above knowledge is the basic situation of whether bronchoscopy is introduced for children with pneumonia. It can be said that in some cases, pneumonia can be diagnosed and treated in time, and surgical treatment can also be performed to enable the patient's pneumonia to be cured in time and relieve symptoms.