Introducing the Ambu® aScope™ for speech valve retrieval: How I do it.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Mulla, Omar; O'Donnell, Sarah
- Source
- Clinical Otolaryngology. Nov2019, Vol. 44 Issue 6, p1234-1235. 2p.
- Subject
- *VALVES
*SPEECH
*LARYNGECTOMY
*FOREIGN bodies
*BRONCHOSCOPY
- Language
- ISSN
- 1749-4478
Speech valves are an integral component in the voice and social rehabilitation for laryngectomy patients. As ENT surgeons, we are well versed with retrieval of foreign bodies in the airway in the paediatric population but adult bronchoscopy is more commonly performed by our cardiothoracic or respiratory colleagues. Rigid bronchoscopy is not always possible in this cohort of patients due to resultant anatomy after laryngectomy and adjuvant radiotherapy (Figure). [Extracted from the article]